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Increase Memory able to be used by TBC past Half available.

  • 1.  Increase Memory able to be used by TBC past Half available.

    Posted 06-14-2020 16:47

    Can we look at increasing the available memory TBC can use on a machine? It is currently set to 2GB by default for point clouds, this can manually be increased in the Options window to half the available memory on the machine. On this logic if i want TBC to be able to access 16GB of ram, I need to purchase 32GB.

     

    The problem with this is that in a world of large point clouds, users need to use more and more memory, which means they need to purchase twice the amount they would be using, just to have half sitting there unable to be used in TBC. I can understand the argument for some of the machine to be used, so maybe leave a percentage for the machine, or even have it set to something 2GB retained at all times for the machine.



  • 2.  Re: Increase Memory able to be used by TBC past Half available.

    Posted 08-10-2020 16:46

    Surely once the PC gets past a certain amount of RAM, more than half can be used - i.e. if TBCs recommend minimum for point cloud is 16gb and the PC had 32gb, surely 24gb should be usable by TBC.  

    I would hope that the half of RAM equation is very over simplified... 



  • 3.  Re: Increase Memory able to be used by TBC past Half available.

    Posted 08-10-2020 17:17

    As far as I understand it currently this is the hard set limit no matter how much is in the machine. HOPEFULLY this gets addressed moving forward especially with larger point clouds coming in and more powerful machines being used.