Re: out of memory ? plenty of RAM

Posted by Heinrich Bürgers on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/out-of-memory-plenty-of-RAM-tp3703141p3703145.html

Hi Sergio,
I already enabled more than 8GB and that's what optons-> memory is
telling me.
This particularly function breaks down not using all the memory
available to IMAGEJ. Other things (deconvolution/fourier-transformations
etc.) work well and really use the 8 gibabyte RAM fully.

Sergio Caballero wrote:

>>From the Menu Bar open Edit->Options->Memory... and enter a new memory
> allocation for ImageJ (currently supports up to 1 GB, i.e. 1024 MB,
> regardless of how much additional RAM is on the machine).
>
> HTH, Sergio
>
> Sergio Caballero, Jr., MS
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Heinrich Bürgers
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 7:35 AM
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> Subject: out of memory ? plenty of RAM
>
> Hi,
> I am using debian, actual ImageJ, java 1.4.2 on a 2-way ia64.
>
> my memory according to "free" (nothing special running):
>     total       used       free     shared    buffers    cached
> Mem:  9350656    1790016    7560640          0      83040     1421616
> -/+ buffers/cache:     285360    9065296
> Swap:      2060512          0    2060512
>
> my "run" file looks like:
> /usr/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/bin/java -Xmx8192m -cp ij.jar ij.ImageJ
>
> I want to process a composite (486400x19200 8bit grey) image with median
> filter 5x5
>
> I get following message:
>
>
> <Out of memory>
> <All available memory (6459MB) has been>
> ...
>
>
> according to vmstat there's nearly 2.9 GB total RAM left!
> where's the restriction?
>
> thanks for your help in advance!
> Heinrich
>

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