well, register360 import is slow because of the panoramic images (points import usually takes about 40-60 sec/setup image takes about 80-120 sec/setup), especially with hdr images (default for rtc360) it process 5 bracket hdr image with a lot of imageprocessing algorithm, which sometims do good, but a lot of times does bad work. And it cannot be disabled. It might depend on the resulting media, but not much, I've seen similar result when we imported to local machine nvme ssd and similar when import to the gigabit nas...smacl wrote: ↑Tue Aug 09, 2022 9:12 amGood to know. I would have expected (hoped?) any decent export function to be throttled by disk I/O speed. Not always the case when dealing with older legacy code such as the E57 reference libraries. Import can be slower at times if you're doing something like building an octree on a single core.badam wrote: ↑Tue Aug 09, 2022 7:55 ambut you can do almost anything with an import running in the background... It will just eat up 30-40 gb ram and few processing cores, nothing really bad. The same goes for exporting. Render with 3dsmax or other things like photogammetry, or recap imports you are right that should run on a secondary machine, which can be stronger, then the main machine.
there are options to run the import slow (single threaded),balanced (few cores), high (few more core). But for us this seems really bad, it really doesn't change much difference to run the import in fast or slow, and it has a tendency to underestimate the memory size, so the import crashes because of low amount of ram (with 128 gb available, and a ryzen r9 3900x). So for us is single threaded it is... Until it imports everything during the night (200-300 hdr setup), then not worth the risk to get up in the morning that the import has crashed.
Export is a hole lot of other thing in reg360... there are optimizations which was done because of my feature requests, but still there are times when it just takes 10 percent of the export with useless things. Before my feature request half of the time could not be skipped, but not required to export. Which is huge when you have a project which has 24 hour export time...
If the machine is only for register 360 there is no need to go full spec, won't change much, you just need 64 gb of ram or more, and a decent ssd not required to get high end, even a sata ssd will be fine.