2026-08-02, 04:20 PM
i have noticed for a while that my opencpn was laggy when scrolling or zooming/ unzooming.
my system is a rpi5 with 8gb of memory, MacArthur hat and pci base for ssd drive.
well after a little digging i realized opencpn was being very conservative with my map cache and memory.
i changed the follow in opencpn.config
[settings]
GPUMemorySize=2048
MEMCacheLimit=4096
NCacheLimit=200
i don't know if the GPU setting is necessary but i added it anyway..
the change was rather dramatic and has fixed the issue.
my system is a rpi5 with 8gb of memory, MacArthur hat and pci base for ssd drive.
well after a little digging i realized opencpn was being very conservative with my map cache and memory.
i changed the follow in opencpn.config
[settings]
GPUMemorySize=2048
MEMCacheLimit=4096
NCacheLimit=200
i don't know if the GPU setting is necessary but i added it anyway..
the change was rather dramatic and has fixed the issue.

