the figure below show memory consumption for 3 running process (the OS uses 400MB)
2011/4/21 Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior <p...@netfilter.com.br>: > You can set up multicore in VirtualBox or VMWare > > In my experience ( without the gcut) 1GB is enough > > -- iOS 4.3 > > Em 21/04/2011, às 13:53, "Richard G. Edgar" > <rg...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> escreveu: > >> >> On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 09:48 -0700, Rongxiang Tang wrote: >>> >>> I was wondering if I can run several freesurfers in my virtualbox >>> simultaneously by setting up several virtual machines...my computer >>> has 16G RAM and it's Windows 7 64-bit. >>> Would working multiple freesurfers at the same time slow down the >>> calculations? >>> Moreover, I was wondering if my computer could afford these loads... >>> >> >> I can't speak for the virtualisation side, but it's certainly possible >> (even advisable) to run more than one copy of Freesurfer on a machine. I >> ran an experiment, running a recon-all instance on each of my box's four >> cores, and they were all complete in about 110% of the time of a single >> run - a big win. >> >> Now with virtualisation, you'd also be running extra copies of the guest >> OS. Can you set up a single VM with multiple cores instead? If you have >> a quad core machine, give the VM three cores, and run three Freesurfer >> jobs on it. Trying it is the only way to be sure. >> >> Richard >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. >> >
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