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Thanks I found out how to reconfigure VMWARE to allow it obtain more ram. (VMWARE PLAYER, TROUBLESHOOT, Change Memory Allocation). Thank you, Roman On 9/27/07, David Gutman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Also even though your base system has 3GB of ram, that doesn't mean all of > it's actually devoted to the virtual machine. I haven't used the newest > version of VMWARE, but there's a way to specify how much ram the virtual > machine uses. If you go to a shell, and hit "top" you can potentially see > how much system ram is available. Another even easier way is to "reboot" > the virtual machine, and as it does it's reboot you can see how much ram the > virtual machine "thinks" it has. > > > dg > > On 9/27/07, Roman Loonis <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > I have not used a "nice" command and I have 3 gb of ram. I am, however, > > running bedpostx on vmware which is installed on windows. Maybe that > > installation has limited the usage of the CPU by bedpostx? Thanks for the > > rapid reply, > > > > Roman > > > > > > On 9/27/07, David Gutman <[log in to unmask] > wrote: > > > > > > At least on my system, bedpostX uses 100% of the CPU-- How much ram > > > is in your system? Unless there's something weird with your installation ( > > > i.e. your computer thinks you have 4 CPU's and you really only have > > > one), it should be using 100% of a cpu, unless you have put "nice" in front > > > of the probtrackX command have other things running. > > > > > > The other possibility is that you don't have enough ram, so your CPU > > > usage is capped by the process of disk swapping-- normally bedpostX requires > > > about 1.5 GBS of ram (depending on your data set) to run efficiently. > > > > > > > > > dag > > > > > > On 9/27/07, Roman Loonis <[log in to unmask] > wrote: > > > > > > > > I would like to know if I could increase the load bedpostx takes on > > > > my CPU > > > > from 25% to more like 75%. It is a single processor computer, but I > > > > would > > > > just like to increase the amount of the processor that is dedicated > > > > to > > > > bedpostx. Thank you, > > > > > > > > Roman > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > David A Gutman, M.D. Ph.D . > > > Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences > > > Emory University School of Medicine > > > > > > > > > -- > David A Gutman, M.D. Ph.D. > Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences > Emory University School of Medicine >