I read thru this wiki https://communities.bentley.com/products/3d_imaging_and_point_cloud_software/w/wiki/47956/tiling-tips and it gave some help. I have a 3d model I'm trying to process and it's 1,500 photos with 30 Gigapixels. When I attempted to do the reconstruction it recommended to do tiling so I chose "Adaptive Tiling". It gives me an option to put a target RAM amount. My basic specs are an Intel i9 3.2Ghz with 10 cores, i have 64GB RAM and a RTX 3080 TI. I was thinking I should put more than 16GB if it would speed things up but it seems to recommend 16GB. So this is my first model and so I did the default. Is there any speed enhancement possibility in increasing the RAM commitment? I would not be using this computer for anything else during the processing so no other apps would be competing for CPU/RAM.
The one thing I'm noticing as it is currently processing is that the CPU is being pegged at 100% most of the time, RAM for ContextCapture is sitting around 4GB so it's not even using the 16 GB I entered and GPU has gone up to 60% but it probably is hovering around 5-20%. My gut is telling me more RAM won't help but I don't know much quite yet.
Please help, I'm clearly a newbie and would appreciate any documentation/help anyone can provide.
If this can help...
When i started to use CC, i have spent quite some time monitoring my computer's RAM consumption...and if it usually stay below (and way below) the settings you've chose you will notice from time to time some RAM usage peaks that crank up and might even go beyond the limit you've set (and the tile production will fail). And since the target RAM usage will "mainly" affect the number of tiles generated, unless you plan to use or edit those tiles with another third party software, as said by Felix James, it's better to stick with the default settings (since CC viewer, CC editor and so on will do just fine with tiles anyway).