making memory

Posted by Robert Martin-3 on Jan 13, 2006; 8:07pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/making-memory-tp3704020.html

I have a question about the program memory.

I am downloading a sequence of DICOM images and was limited to about 15
slices because the log file told me that I was using all of my 256MB of
memory.  I then went into the edit/options/memory function to change my
maximum memory allowed to 1.5GB (I have 2.0 GB Ram).

After closing and restarting the program, the icon doesn't work and I
have to click the ij.jar file instead - but in this instance the log
file tells me that I have only 63MB of Ram to use, (about 5 images) -
much less than I started with.

Does anyone know what went wrong or can suggest an antedote? Does
having an external harddrive solve this or does it have to be ram
memory?  I ideally have to compile 1800 images or so into a 3-D data
viewer to do my analysis.

Thanks so much in advance