Hi Gabriel,

that is a huge defect and generally means something major has gone wrong.
Look at the lh or rh.orig.nofix and the corresponding ?h.inflated.nofix
over the wm.mgz file to see what is wrong (usually something like a big
chunk of skull is left over and connected to the surface, sometimes
through orbital fat in the eye sockets)

If you can't sort it out let us know and we will help
cheers
Bruce

On Tue, 25 Feb 2020, Gabriel Tapia
wrote:

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> Hello dear Freesurfer developers, nice to e-meet you and thank you for
> working on this open source software!
>
> I am trying to produce a 3D file of a brain.
> The command I am trying to run is recon-all and here is the error I get:
> CORRECTING DEFECT 57 (vertices=33394, convex hull=9966)
> Excessive topologic defect encountered: could not allocate 140742253
> edges for retessellation
> Cannot allocate memory
>
> The version I am using is: freesurfer-Linux-centos4-stable-pub-v5.3.0
> The platform is Red Hat 64-bit running in a Virtual box with 7835mb
> allocated memory.
> You will find the corresponding log file attached.
>
> Isn't it surprising that I don't have enough memory with 7835mb allocated?
> Sorry, I am new to Freesurfer and there might be something I didn't get.
> Thank you very much in advance for your help,
> Regards,
>
> Gabriel Tapia
> www.Partage3D.fr
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