{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/potree/PotreeConverter/issues/43","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/potree/PotreeConverter/issues/43/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/potree/PotreeConverter/issues/43/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/potree/PotreeConverter/issues/43/events","html_url":"https://github.com/potree/PotreeConverter/issues/43","id":43612890,"number":43,"title":"High memory usage with unordered point clouds","user":{"login":"m-schuetz","id":6705073,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6705073?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/m-schuetz","html_url":"https://github.com/m-schuetz","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/m-schuetz/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/m-schuetz/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/m-schuetz/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/m-schuetz/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/m-schuetz/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/m-schuetz/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/m-schuetz/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/m-schuetz/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/m-schuetz/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2014-09-23T10:26:43Z","updated_at":"2015-06-11T07:08:06Z","closed_at":null,"body":"If consecutive points are all over the place instead of close together, PotreeConverter needs a lot of memory because it has to keep all nodes in memory.\r\nAs a workaround, it is possible to split the point cloud in tiles (with lastile, for example) and convert all the tiles instead. In one case this brought memory usage down from >15Gb to 1Gb.\r\n\r\nPotreeConverter should be able to handle such unordered datasets by itself, for example by reading a chunk of points, sorting the chunk and then do the conversion. "},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/potree/PotreeConverter/issues/comments/111018269","html_url":"https://github.com/potree/PotreeConverter/issues/43#issuecomment-111018269","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/potree/PotreeConverter/issues/43","id":111018269,"user":{"login":"potree","id":2094934,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2094934?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/potree","html_url":"https://github.com/potree","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/potree/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/potree/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/potree/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/potree/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/potree/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/potree/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/potree/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/potree/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/potree/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-06-11T07:08:06Z","updated_at":"2015-06-11T07:08:06Z","body":"Interesting. Did you get the same output results and was there a difference in conversion times?"}}