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Fix #562 (#572)
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Laurae2 authored and guolinke committed Oct 9, 2017
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- **Question 3**: I am using Windows. Should I use Visual Studio or MinGW for compiling LightGBM?
- **Question 3**: When running LightGBM on a large dataset, my computer runs out of RAM.

- **Solution 3**: It is recommended to [use Visual Studio](https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM/issues/542) as its performance is higher for LightGBM.
- **Solution 3**: Multiple solutions: set `histogram_pool_size` parameter to the MB you want to use for LightGBM (histogram_pool_size + dataset size = approximately RAM used), lower `num_leaves`, lower `max_depth`, or lower `max_bin` (see [issue #562](https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM/issues/562)).

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- **Question 4**: When using LightGBM GPU, I cannot reproduce results over several runs.
- **Question 4**: I am using Windows. Should I use Visual Studio or MinGW for compiling LightGBM?

- **Solution 4**: It is a normal issue, there is nothing we/you can do about, you may try to use `gpu_use_dp = true` for reproducibility (see [issue #560](https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM/pull/560#issuecomment-304561654)). You may also use CPU version.
- **Solution 4**: It is recommended to [use Visual Studio](https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM/issues/542) as its performance is higher for LightGBM.

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- **Question 5**: When using LightGBM GPU, I cannot reproduce results over several runs.

- **Solution 5**: It is a normal issue, there is nothing we/you can do about, you may try to use `gpu_use_dp = true` for reproducibility (see [issue #560](https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM/pull/560#issuecomment-304561654)). You may also use CPU version.

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