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Hi,
  I just asked the sysadmin to address this issue (about changing the
memory limit per process)  and I need more information about what specific
paramater needs to be changed in the kernel.
We currently use kernel 2.4.22-1.2188.nptlsmp on Fedora Core 1.

Thanks,

Mike

> Date:    Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:11:13 +0000
> From:    Stephen Smith <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: error in film_gls processing during FEAT due to large data file
>
> Hi - yes, this is mentioned every now and then; this is probably because
> of the 2GB limit for a given process in some linux kernels. The first
> thing to try is to get your sysadmin to change this limit in the kernel
> tuning if possible.
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Mike Patterson wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >    I've searched through the list, but I didn't find a specific answer
> > to the problem I keep getting where film_gls does not create all the
> > files correctly if the data file is too big.  This data file is about
> > 1300 images and 181 Mb in compressed nifti format.  I have 2Gb of RAM and
> > 4Gb of swap space running on Linux Red Hat Fedora 1 and FSL 3.2.  Has
> > anyone successfully processed large data sets?  FEAT works fine for smaller
> > image sets and successfully ran the FEEDS data on this computer.
> > Do I have to break up the data in some way before using FEAT?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > p.s. The exact error messages outputted in FEAT  are listed below:
> >
> > /usr/local/fsl/bin/contrast_mgr  stats design.con
> > ** ERROR: nifti_image_read(stats/sigmasquareds): can't open header file
> > ** ERROR: nifti_image_open(stats/sigmasquareds): bad header info
> > Error: failed to open file stats/sigmasquareds
> > Error:: FslGetDim: Null pointer passed for FSLIO
> >
> >