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igurevich38
New member
Username: Igurevich38
Post Number: 1
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 1:40 pm: |   |
I am having a memory issue even though I know for a fact that my PC has enough memory to do this.
I have 5 images, each is 17000 x 4000 pixels. I am trying to stitch them together into a single 17000 x 20000. After I import them and try to do a vertical array I get an "out of memory" error and PF crashes. However these same images when imported into Paint Shop Pro open up and stitch just fine. (But I can't get alignment exact so that's why I need PF here).
The images are 256 colors so they are not too huge. My PC has Win XP, 2 GB of RAM and max 4 GB of virtual memory allocated, with plenty of hard drive space left. Why isn't this working?
My images are all made up of 1000 x 1000 tiles, from which I didn't have any problems making 17000 x 4000 sections using PF. So where do I hit the limit?
Another questions is if what I am doing cannot be done in the end, is there a way to restitch my 1000x1000 tiles into some kinds of other size quadrants so in the end I can come up with a single 17000 x 20000 image?
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John Strait
Moderator
Username: Jstrait
Post Number: 149
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 2:13 pm: | |
I am sorry, but you are stretching the abilities of The Panorama Factory running on 32-bit Windows. The final image, 17,000 by 20,000 pixels, is almost certainly too large for The Panorama Factory given your computer's configuration.
You wrote "The images are 256 colors so they are not too huge" and "these same images when imported into Paint Shop Pro open up and stitch just fine."
The Panorama Factory expands all images to full color format before stitching. Each pixel occupies 4 bytes, one byte each for red, green, blue plus one more byte for housekeeping information. Perhaps Paint Shop Pro stitches without expanding the images...I don't know for sure.
But in The Panorama Factory, your 17,000 by 20,000 image will require 17,000 x 20,000 x 4 = 1,360,000,000 bytes. In other words, 1.36 GB. This by itself is too large for Windows XP.
Although you have 2 GB of RAM and 4 GB of swap space, The Panorama Factory needs a single, unbroken memory block to hold the image and Windows XP cannot allocate a single block that is 1.36 GB.
In addition, during stitching The Panorama Factory needs enough memory to hold the final image plus 3 of the row images which are each 17,000 x 4,000 x 4 = 272,000,000 bytes or 0.272 GB. So it needs 1.36 GB + 3 x 0.272 GB = 2.176 GB.
Under normal Windows XP, a single application cannot address more than 2 GB of virtual memory in any combination of memory blocks, regardless of the size of the swap file.
These are basic limitations in Windows XP.
Your only hopes are
1. To try the /3GB boot option in Windows XP. This increases the amount of available virtual memory from 2 GB to 3 GB.
--or--
2. Run it under the 64-bit version of The Panorama Factory. This increases the amount of virtual memory to 1 terabyte (1000 GB). Please note that this version runs only on AMD64 processors with 64-bit Windows.
For more information, I recommend you read these FAQ and Trouble reports:
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igurevich38
New member
Username: Igurevich38
Post Number: 2
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 2:31 pm: | |
Thanks John. At least I know what the limits are. I don't have an option to get 64 bit anything. Also paranoid to increase to the 3 GB swaping limit, because don't want to hose the machine.
So what is the largest possible image you can recommend with the given configuration that I listed? Do you think a maximum of a 10000x10000 image will work or 8000x8000. I would have to recalculate my tile stitching patterns, but I need to know what's my largest combined image can be before I start running into problems.
Thanks for your help.
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John Strait
Moderator
Username: Jstrait
Post Number: 152
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 13, 2004 - 5:44 pm: | |
I have been running the 3 GB version of Windows XP for a long time and have not had problems with it. I am running Service Pack 2 and it seems fine with the the 3 GB option. But I can appreciate your reluctance to try it.
On ordinary Windows XP, the limit on the final image is around 240 megapixels. So 10000 x 10000 should be OK. But there may be slight variations from one Windows XP installation to the next, so the only way to be absolutely certain is to try it! |
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