Am 10.12.2012 21:16, schrieb Sebastian Wagner:
> Hi Ulrich,
> 
> I'm chiming in here in with my question.
> I want to ask if there's something else that influences dt's decision on
> accepting a GPU's OpenCL capacities. I have a GPU with only 255MB, and
> yes I know it's very low, I've set opencl_memory_requirement to 255
> (same with 254), but dt still deactivates OpenCL "due to insufficient
> global memory". Setting host_memory_limit to sth lower than 255 has the
> same result.
> 
>     $ darktable -d opencl
>     [opencl_init] trying to load opencl library: '<system default>'
>     [opencl_init] opencl library 'libOpenCL' found on your system and loaded
>     [opencl_init] found 1 devices
>     [opencl_init] discarding device 0 `Quadro FX 570M' due to
>     insufficient global memory (255MB).
>     [opencl_init] no suitable devices found.
>     [opencl_init] FINALLY: opencl is NOT AVAILABLE on this system.
>     [opencl_init] initial status of opencl enabled flag is OFF.
> 

Hi Sebastian,
sorry, but darktable won't support that. A sane OpenCL setup for
darktable to run reliably requires 1GB+ of graphics memory. That's the
default setting which darktable tests on startup. Even going as low as
512MB is calling for problems.

Please understand that we as developers need to take care that OpenCL
related noise doesn't get too heavy. The enormous diversity of OpenCL
setups is already a big burden for us to help people. If we would now be
faced with additional issues - even related to setups where we knew
upfront they'd fail - we would drown. So these built-in limits are also
a kind of self-defense :)

Ulrich


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