Given pipeline state dict, this function calculates the memory required
    to store visibilities and make images.
    headroom scales visibility memory size from single data object to all copies (and potential file read needs)
    limit=True returns a the minimum memory configuration
    Returns tuple of (vismem, immem) in units of GB.

def calc_memory_footprint(d, headroom=4., visonly=False, limit=False):
    """ Given pipeline state dict, this function calculates the memory required
    to store visibilities and make images.
    headroom scales visibility memory size from single data object to all copies (and potential file read needs)
    limit=True returns a the minimum memory configuration
    Returns tuple of (vismem, immem) in units of GB.
    """

    toGB = 8/1024.**3   # number of complex64s to GB
    d0 = d.copy()

    # limit defined for dm sweep time and max nchunk/nthread ratio
    if limit:
        d0['readints'] = d['t_overlap']/d['inttime']
        d0['nchunk'] = max(d['dtarr'])/min(d['dtarr']) * d['nthread']

    vismem = headroom * datasize(d0) * toGB
    if visonly:
        return vismem
    else:
        immem = d0['nthread'] * (d0['readints']/d0['nchunk'] * d0['npixx'] * d0['npixy']) * toGB
        return (vismem, immem)