# Filters crashing program/PC
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/filters-crashing-program-pc/3886
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [March 25, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/filters-crashing-program-pc/3886 "2020-03-25T20:45:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Chloe\_Pearce](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Chloe_Pearce)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/filters-crashing-program-pc/3886/1 "2020-03-25T20:45:26Z")
Hi there,
I’m working with a large data set and am working to create a 3D model from this. However, the program, and sometimes the PC crashes when I apply the filters clip and threshold. It is able to generate one contour, but any more and I have the same problem. It seems to be a memory problem, but has occurred on multiple computers.
I’d like some recommendations regarding filter application in ParaView, or something to apply in pre-processing.
I’ve tried cropping the image stack, thresholding macros on ImageJ, but to no avail.
Thank you,
Chloe
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2020, 3:16am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/filters-crashing-program-pc/3886/2 "2020-03-26T03:16:41Z")
Monitor the memory to make sure that your crashes are actually caused by out of memory problems.
VIew -\> Memory inspector, but i would recommend an external tool, like htop on linux.