imageJ runs extremely slow while 3/4 cores unused on 32g ram

[VC]

hi all, i'm doing cell counting using itcn plugin in imageJ. this runs extremely slow and is seriously hampering my progress. the pictures to be analyzed are max 400M, however activity manager displays usage of all 32g ram. i have an imac 2013, quad core 32g ram i7 but the program only uses 1 core for over 100%, making it unpractically slow. i posted screen print of activity manager and imageJ window.

could anyone please advise me on how to make the program/plugin run faster??

thx!!




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[Gabriel Landini]

On Thursday 28 Nov 2013 11:02:49 VC <[hidden email]> wrote:
> hi all, i'm doing cell counting using itcn plugin in imageJ. this runs
> extremely slow and is seriously hampering my progress. the pictures to be
> analyzed are max 400M, however activity manager displays usage of all 32g
> ram. i have an imac 2013, quad core 32g ram i7 but the program only uses 1
> core for over 100%, making it unpractically slow. i posted screen print of
> activity manager and imageJ window.
>
> could anyone please advise me on how to make the program/plugin run faster??

Only practical thing I can think of is to crop the image to process only the
region of interest.
Other than that you would need to rewrite the plugin to make it multi
threaded.

G.

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[VC]

thx for the quick reply! image is unfortunately already cropped… I did not write the plugin so I'm not able to make it multi threaded (I have no experience in plugin creation whatsoever), but I will try to contact the authors!