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tived · 2010-03-13 15:09:21

Hi Guys,

I am using windows XP x64, APG 2.06
I have about 500GB of space on each of the 3 hard drives free
I am currently working on an image of more then 500 images 10megapixels each. its been running since the 9th March. It seems to be progressing very slowly, though it is probably a very messy pano, as I have bracket several times.

anyway, I am noting that on my CPU usage history is shows that I am only using one of 4 cores, at 25-30% and 3GB of ram, (have 8GB installed)

it this normal, this is probably my biggest pano attempt so far. How long should this take?

thanks

Henrik

Last edited by tived (2010-03-13 15:09:55)

mediavets · 2010-03-13 17:36:15

tived wrote:
it this normal, this is probably my biggest pano attempt so far. How long should this take?

thanks

Henrik

I presume it is in the rendering phase?

What render settings are you using - for example, which interpolator, which blender and what output format?

hankkarl · 2010-03-14 00:47:33

There's a point in APP where it only seems to use one core (but at almost 100% on my machine.) This is during optimization or lens correction. This also affects editing a different pano--when you change things, APP has to wait for the pano in progress to be detected.

You may have some hard disk issue if you're only seeing 30% useage.

tived · 2010-03-14 01:10:33

Thanks guys,

well, I am at the initial phase, before I can actually see if it is working out, as in I don;t have a preview yet.

The one processor that is in use, is running at 100% and the rest are just hovering above zero. The progress bar is moving forward a few mm every day, I am between a quarter and a third now, and its been almost 4 days now. Ohh well, I will let it keep running till i have some work to do.

thanks Andrew and Hankkarl

Henrik

vklaffehn · 2010-03-14 22:53:22

Hello, I experienced very slow rendering when using bracketed shots. My MiniPanoBot shoots 60 pics for 360x180, rendering takes about one hour on a C2D X6800 @ 2,93GHz with 8GB RAM on Win7 x64 and 4x250GB SATA configured as stripeset. Doing the same Pano bracketed (180 pics, +/- 2EV) it took about two days on the same machine.
MfG
V.Klaffehn

tived · 2010-03-15 01:05:37

Danke V.Klaffehn, thanks!

I do have to me, quite a few images, 538 to be precise, it is bracket, up 6 exposures. I am using a Dual Opteron 285 (2.6Ghz) 8GB XP x64, a bit of a dinosaur these days. I am wondering if some of my settings are not optimized for such a big pano, it is roughly four or five rows by twenty or there about, give and take a few :-)

We are having an exhibition called "Sculptures by Sea", on our local beach, Cottesloe Beach, Western Australia, (its not my exhibition :-)), and I have tried to capture part of the beach with its sculptures and the people around, hoping that by having used a slower shutter speed, that people will be a bit blurred, as it isn't about the people, but the event and the place.

but just getting back to the tech, in my task manager, AutopanoGiga_x64.exe is running on a constant 25% of total CPU usage, eg, its using one CPU, as illustrated by the graph of the four CPU's, only one is at full sped (CPU_2 (3)). I have almost completed 40%.

hmm, I am just looking at my settings again, and it is set for smaller pano's, not Giga pano's - given that I have fed it 6GB of images, maybe this is where its struggling - Q? would it be better to stop the process and change the settings, restart and begin again?

Thanks

Henrik

vklaffehn · 2010-03-15 08:29:26

Hello!
Maybe you can try to merge the bracketed shots with something like photomatix, or just take one of the bracketed shots and try another render, as you have three cores left for that :-)
Oh, wait : do you already rendering the panorama, or still detecting it? Detecting my bracketed panoramas did't take much longer than detecting non bracketed, optimizing is slower (currently testing with a 60x3 bracketed shot, started at 8:26), and final rendering is much slower.
Detection time depends a lot on the detection settings (surprise, surprise!), so setting detection to high and increase the numer of CP's will heavily increase detection time, and not always with better results.
Does the status bar tell what step is currently in progress? Lens correction takes quite long here, and optimizing with bracketed shots takes a while, too.
Mfg

Volker

Last edited by vklaffehn (2010-03-15 08:37:38)

tived · 2010-03-15 08:35:37

Hi Volker,

Thanks for getting back to me, it was still detecting it, I decided to stop. I have changed my settings for my setup and will have another go at it.

thanks heaps

Henrik

PS: I might have a go at in PTGui (but don;t say that loud :-) )

hankkarl · 2010-03-15 14:55:22

Hard disk allocation matters--I use three disks, as follows:
1. system and program files
2. windows swap space and Photos for APP (source and destination)
3. APP temp files

If I had another drive, I would separate the windows swap space from the photos.

#1 2010-03-13 15:09:21

Full optimize stage 1 - only using one of four cores?

#2 2010-03-13 17:36:15

Re: Full optimize stage 1 - only using one of four cores?

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