Check ulimit -m That's the max mem per process.
ulimit -m 0 Maybe will help. -- Pedro Paulo Jr E71 Nokia -----Msg original----- De: Jürgen Hänggi Enviada: 01/07/2009 02:36:36 Para: Freesurfer Mailinglist Assunto: [Freesurfer] Cannot allocate memory / can't allocate region Dear FS experts I am using high resolution (0.75x0.75x0.75 mm) data within FS but the following error occurred: ....... vertex spacing 0.69 +- 0.21 (0.00-->6.06) (max @ vno 265258 --> 114262) face area 0.19 +- 0.10 (0.00-->4.49) mris_make_surfaces(49536) malloc: *** mmap(size=1355776) failed (error code=12) *** error: can't allocate region *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug MRIalloc(937, 361, 612): could not allocate 1353028 bytes for 356th slice 000: dt: 0.0000, sse=4822516.5, rms=2.25 rms = 2.94, time step reduction 1 of 3 to 0.250... 043: dt: 0.2500, sse=4898456.5, rms=1.89 rms = 1.86, time step reduction 2 of 3 to 0.125... 044: dt: 0.2500, sse=5293477.5, rms=1.86 045: dt: 0.1250, sse=5277681.5, rms=1.76 046: dt: 0.1250, sse=5237215.5, rms=1.70 rms = 1.69, time step reduction 3 of 3 to 0.062... 047: dt: 0.1250, sse=5270459.0, rms=1.69 positioning took 16.1 minutes inhibiting deformation at non-cortical midline structures... correcting aseg with surfaces... Cannot allocate memory Darwin juergen-haenggis-mac-pro.local 9.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.7.0: Tue Mar 31 22:52:17 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.12.14~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 recon-all exited with ERRORS at Wed Jul 1 04:20:34 CEST 2009 [juergen-haenggis-mac-pro:subjects/roman_p_highres_div100/mri] I am using FS 4.4, Mac OSX 10.5, 8 GB RAM, memoryuse unlimited, descriptors 8192 The process terminated before all RAM is active and no swap is used. Any idea? Thanks in advance Regards Jürgen ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Juergen Haenggi Ph.D. (Dr. des.) Division Neuropsychology Institute of Psychology University of Zurich Binzmuehlestrasse 14, PO Box 25 8050 Zurich, Switzerland 0041 44 635 73 97 (phone office) 0041 76 445 86 84 (phone mobile) 0041 44 635 74 09 (fax office) BIN 4.D.04 (office room number) j.haenggi[at]psychologie.uzh.ch (email) http://www.psychologie.uzh.ch/neuropsy/ (website) http://www.juergenhaenggi.ch (private website) This e-mail (and any attachment/s) contains confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer _______________________________________________ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer
