ImageJ memory on 64-bit Windows

[Graham Wright-5]

Hello

We are struggling to get ImageJ to open very large stacks (Leica lif files). We're running the latest version of ImageJ with Java JDK1.6.0_04 and ImageJ seems to think that it is running on a 64bit machine and lets us increase the memory to 5GB (the machine has 16Gb).


When we try and import an image series, which ImageJ thinks is 885Mb, it crashes and says it is out of memory at around 500Mb.


We've tried the ImageJ website suggestions, amongst other things, but no luck. Can anyone make any further suggestions?


Thanks
Graham

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Dr Graham Wright
Microscopy & Imaging Facility

Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory
1 Research Link
National University of Singapore
Singapore 117604

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[Michael Schmid]

Hi Graham,

did you have a look at the documentation wiki page?

http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/imagej-documentation-wiki/faq/how-do-i- 
increase-the-memory-in-imagej

Michael
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On 11 Feb 2008, at 07:59, Graham Wright wrote:

> Hello
>
> We are struggling to get ImageJ to open very large stacks (Leica  
> lif files). We're running the latest version of ImageJ with Java  
> JDK1.6.0_04 and ImageJ seems to think that it is running on a 64bit  
> machine and lets us increase the memory to 5GB (the machine has 16Gb).
>
>
> When we try and import an image series, which ImageJ thinks is  
> 885Mb, it crashes and says it is out of memory at around 500Mb.
>
>
> We've tried the ImageJ website suggestions, amongst other things,  
> but no luck. Can anyone make any further suggestions?
>
>
> Thanks
> Graham
>
> -----
> Dr Graham Wright
> Microscopy & Imaging Facility
>
> Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory
> 1 Research Link
> National University of Singapore
> Singapore 117604
>
> P:    [phone]
> E:     [hidden email]

[dscho]

Hi,

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Graham Wright wrote:

> We are struggling to get ImageJ to open very large stacks (Leica lif
> files). We're running the latest version of ImageJ with Java JDK1.6.0_04
> and ImageJ seems to think that it is running on a 64bit machine and lets
> us increase the memory to 5GB (the machine has 16Gb).
>
>
> When we try and import an image series, which ImageJ thinks is 885Mb, it
> crashes and says it is out of memory at around 500Mb.
>
>
> We've tried the ImageJ website suggestions, amongst other things, but no
> luck. Can anyone make any further suggestions?

You might find valuable information in the ImageJ FAQ:

http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/imagej-documentation-wiki/faq/how-do-i-increase-the-memory-in-imagej

Hth,
Dscho