Hi,
I discovered that installing Freesurfer onto my local workstation and running Tkmedit from there has resolved my issue. It doesn't explain why tkmedit is so slow when run from our server, so if you have some ideas please let me know. Thank you all for your help.
Best,
Vy
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Vy Dinh vydinh1@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for your reply. All of our Freesurfer commands, including Tkmedit are run from the servers on the RedHat Machine. We use the ssh -Y syntax (not -X), and when I tried using -X instead, it doesn't change the speed of tkmedit.
Additionally, I tried copying my data to another (department's) server at our institution and running tkmedit from there. We didn't experience any lag here, so this suggests that our department's dedicated server is somehow dealing with tkmedit differently. However, when our server expert checked the CPU usage, it appears that OUR department's server is using less RAM overall (so it if anything, our data should process more quickly.). In other words, we can't figure out how Tkmedit is utilized by the servers differently.
-Vy
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 11:13 AM, dgw dgwakeman@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
What machine are you actually running tkmedit on?
more specifically: You appear to be using a mac. Do you run tkmedit directly on the mac?
or are you using ssh -X (or something like it to run it) on the Red Hat machines?
Thanks, D
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Vy Dinh vdinh2@wisc.edu wrote:
Greetings Freesurfer developers,
I'm looking for ways to improve the speed of TKMEDIT for Freesurfer 5.3. Specifically, the GUI interface is abnormally slow; edits made to a voxel takes 1-2 seconds to show up on the screen. Interesting, the recon-all doesn't appear to be slow (as each subject has been processed within a 24 hr period), so I wonder if this problem has something to do with TKMEDIT's GUI & my current setup.
Although I SSH into our server for data processing, here are the specs for my local workstation:
Mac OSX 10.9.2 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 Determine how many cores (Apple icon >> About this Mac >> More Info) 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Server Specs:
Our App servers have 4 Xeon CPUs apiece, each with 8 cores running at 2.7GHz, for a total of 32 cores (I was told that this shouldn't be the cause as the point of multi-core and multi-threading is not dependent on speed only). As well, each server has 94 GB of RAM.
Our App servers mount shares via NFS from our file servers. All servers are the same version of Red Hat Linux, so there is no differences there. According to the server expert at our institution, the tkmedit does not appear to surpass a CPU *utilization* of 8*%* of a single core, so the programs running off the server should be able to utilize its maximum speed.
I am working closely with our server expert to troubleshoot this issue, so any insight from the development team will be much appreciated. Thank you.
Best regards,
Vy Dinh MD Candidate, Class of 2017 University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
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