diff --git a/source/faq.rst b/source/faq.rst index 19f633acf..8e96d546b 100644 --- a/source/faq.rst +++ b/source/faq.rst @@ -6,20 +6,20 @@ Frequently Asked Questions Data Processing *************** -Can I process two or more orthophoto GeoTIFFs to stitch them together? +Can I process two or more orthophoto GeoTIFFs to stitch them together? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- No. ODM is a photogrammetric pipeline and orthophotos do not have the necessary camera information since the images have already been orthorectified. You can use another program such as `Hugin `_ to do that. The software is not using all of my CPU cores / memory / GPU all of the times. Is it normal? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes. The software tries to use all available resources, when possible, but not always. It's normal to see 10-15% resource utilization at several moments during processing. If I use the native version of the software, how can I allocate more resources for processing? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -No need; the native (non-docker) version of the software alredy uses all available resources. +No need; the native (non-docker) version of the software already uses all available resources. ********* Licensing @@ -43,13 +43,13 @@ Your computer is running out of memory, what can you do? -------------------------------------------------------- 1. First you can buy more RAM, this is the ultimate and final solution. -2. Alternatively you can resize the images when uploading and/or tweak your quality settings. +2. Alternatively you can resize the images when uploading and/or tweak your quality settings. 3. Configure a swapfile. In both Windows and Linux you will need preferably a fast SSD or an NVME drive, and the computing process will be still a LOT slower. - If you are using Windows with `Docker+WSL2 `_ you can add two rows in your .wslconfig file so that Docker will use a swapfile. See also the full Microsoft documentation on `Advanced settings configuration in WSL `_. - + .. code:: - + "swap=128GB" # you will need 128GB of disk space of course "swapfile=C:\\temp\\wsl-swap.vhdx" # this is where the swap file will be stored