[ptx] Error while stitching big pictures

[Hal V Engel]

On Monday 18 April 2005 01:57 am, Chris wrote:
> On Apr 16 18:31, Hal V Engel wrote:
> > So I then tried TIFF output blended by enblend.   Nona passed the images
> > off to enblend in about 4 minutes 25 seconds.  Enblend became memory
> > bound maxing out at about 1152mb virt memory according to top.  Enblend
> > finished blending the image in about an hour.   Slow but the resulting
> > image was very nice.  So it was worth the wait but it would be nice if
> > enblend were a little smarter about how it used memory.  Most of the time
> > CPU utilization was < 10% and paging rates were very high.  So with more
> > memory I would expect enblend to run much faster - perhaps as much as 5
> > to 8 times as fast might be possible.
>
> maybe -m could help:
>  -m megabytes      Use this much memory before going to disk (default=1GiB)

I looked on enblend web site and found this.  It did not work from with in 
Hugin but it worked on the command line.  From the command line enblend did 
the same work in about 10 minutes when I set - m 756.  So it appears that 
Hugin does not pass this to enblend.  I am running Hugin 0.5 beta 3.