Hi Liudmilla,

think it should read "Tiling failed for module ...".

Tiling is a process where darktable splits the image in rectangular tile 
and process them one after the other and recombining the full image in 
the end. This is done in order to save memory and is especially needed 
if you are short in RAM or if your are on a 32-bit system.

The problem now is that - depending on the module and its settings - 
darktable needs to process part of the tile as an "overlap" area to 
avoid borderline artifacts. That overlap area is not used when 
recombining the tiles. For the shadows and highlights module this needed 
overlap area depends on the blur radius and can get very large.

Suppose that your memory situation requires the image to be processed in 
tiles of 400 x 400 pixels. If the overlap area needs to be 200 pixels 
(on each of the four sides of the tile) it's clear what happens: there 
is nothing left "in" the tile which can be used.

What darktable does in that case is to forget about tiling and just 
tries to push through the image in one chunk. That might give all 
possible results: it sometimes works, sometimes part of the image is 
garbled, sometimes darktable crashes. The warning tells you to have a 
close look at your output if you got what you want.

What can you do? You can of course reduce the blur radius in shadows and 
highlights, but that influences the look of the image.

You can increase the configuration parameter "host memory limit for 
tiling" but that might not work if your system is limited in memory (see 
above).

In general it's strongly advised to run darktable on a 64-bit system 
with enough RAM (like 4GB or more).

Ulrich


Am 24.04.2014 19:47, schrieb Людмила Бандурина:
> I see message «Tiling filed for module 'shadhi'. Output may be garbled.»
> when export file from dark room. What is this?
>
> --
> Best wishes, Liudmila
>
>

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