Hi - if flirt is needing too much RAM to handle this then yes a 3-line script separating the files out and recombining with fslsplit and fslmerge stands a better chance of working. Or you could run on a bigger-RAM machine..... Cheers. On 28 Oct 2008, at 17:58, Alle Meije Wink wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to map a 2000+ volume time series into standard space using > flirt. The estimation of the transformation parameters (for the > reference EPI) goes fine, but then when I also want to apply the > transformation to the rest of the series, I get an > "Aborted" > That's all. The program stops, and gives no clue what the problem is. > > What happens as long as flirt is running though, is that memory usage > continuously increases, OS starts using swap memory, everything > becomes > incredibly slow, etc. > Also, there is no file after (I guess) the first volumes should have > been resampled. > > Does this mean that flirt keeps the whole time series in memory during > the resampling, even when the transformations are independent for each > volume? > > An if yes, is it possible to not have it do that? Possibly by going to > 3D files? (ugly, but it might work) > > Thanks > Alle Meije > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen M. Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering Associate Director, Oxford University FMRIB Centre FMRIB, JR Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK +44 (0) 1865 222726 (fax 222717) [log in to unmask] http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~steve ---------------------------------------------------------------------------