Hi David, I'm surprised you didn't have to do this in the past. We always space our jobs out. Glad there's an easy workaround
cheers Bruce On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, David Mischel wrote: > We took the suggestion of staggering the launch of Freesurfer 5.0 recon-all > jobs. The attached Word doc (I don't know how to contribute this information > other than attaching the image and text using Word) shows a load graph on > our file server. When 20 FS jobs began at once (all processing servers using > a single file server) the load on the file server bulged up. When we spaced > out the launch of each job by 15 seconds the load hardly budged. > > > > We have not had to do this in the past with earlier versions of Freesurfer > but this is an obvious work around to the problem we encountered. > > > > < david > > > > > > David Mischel > > Manager of IT > > Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIND) > > <http://www.cind.research.va.gov/> http://www.cind.research.va.gov/ > > VA Medical Center > > 4150 Clement Street, 114M > > San Francisco, CA 94121 > > voice: 415-221-4810 x3864 > > fax: 415-668-2864 > > _______________________________________________ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail.