Pause and the Consequences

[AdSuwo]

Hi Admins and Metashapers,

we have a problem with the number of computer users, but only have a computer dedicated to Agisoft Metashape tasks. Therefore, would you please give us some information regarding the “pause” command? The questions are:

1.   What is going to happen if we pause a process if another person has an urgent need to use Agisoft as well, for a certain of hours? Is the in-hold process will be in a secure and good condition to be continued later? Or it will be useless because the “pause” damages the entire process?

The recently running process that would be held is a Build Dense Cloud of a single-quite big chunk having 35,000 + photos. The data size exceeds 350 GB.
What I know is the pause command takes certain hours to completely respond a big data. I have experienced a response that took 2 days+ and failed to be resumed. Also for Build Dense Cloud. It was a chunk with 50,000+ cameras for approximately 651 GB.
I am also not sure whether Agisoft Metashape Pro could accept other jobs, while the currently running job is in-hold position, as mentioned in https://www.agisoft.com/forum/index.php?topic=8965.msg42040#msg42040.

2.   If it is truly safe to pause a task, in which percentages or maybe steps are suggested to execute it? Because Build Dense Cloud has several steps like generating depth maps, and so on; photo alignment also has matching photos, camera locations, etc., etc.

Almost forget, the computer we use has Xeon processor, and Quadro graphic card, and is supported with 256 GB RAM. Agisoft Metashape Pro 1.8.3 is installed.

I hope this forum would give us enlightenment about it because I tried to search for further information but have not been lucky enough to find it.

Many thanks,

[olihar]

Pause will just pause the process so it will not have any impact. I use it a lot when I have a large project being processed and I need to open another project.

Why are you still using 1.8.3?

[AdSuwo]

Thank you Olihar for the information. It means, after executing "pause" command, i can open directly and start another project, or should I wait until the project is truly paused or stopped? Because the other users may not be able to wait for hours until it really stops or paused. They usually want to use it directly, after a certain number of minutes.

Regarding the version, we may be considering the newer version later, because more users here still utilizing it as well.

[olihar]

Please update to the newest version...

Pausing is in many cases instant, but sometimes it can take some seconds or couple of minutes to activate the Pause.

So yes you can open another Instance of Metashape right away or even at the same time.

Do not Metashape will not release resources like RAM or VRAM so if you are running low on these it will start cache-ing.