I dont know if this applies but I sometimes have really long run times when image quality is bad, usually from subject movement. I drop them.
Josh

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:31 PM, paul horton <horton_paul@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi Bruce and Martin,
 
Thanks for your replies.
 
With regards to the questions from Bruce,
 
1.The machine has 72gb of ram
2.There are no other processes running
3.There are 178 time points.
 
With regards to the questions from Martin,
 
1. This is happening in the -long runs, but, only in 1 of the four runs of that subject.
2.  I have added a part of the log below.  I am not sure if its 'mris_volmask' or 'mri_aparc2aseg' running.
#################################
/home/k0933235/paul/PREDEP_Structural/subjects2/PREDEP46C_fsf.long.PREDEP46_template/mri

mris_volmask --label_left_white 2 --label_left_ribbon 3 --label_right_white 41 --label_right_ribbon 42 --save_ribbon --save_distance PREDEP46C_fsf.long.PREDEP46_template

SUBJECTS_DIR is /home/k0933235/paul/PREDEP_Structural/subjects2

loading input data...

hemi masks overlap voxels = 533537

writing volume /home/k0933235/paul/PREDEP_Structural/subjects2/PREDEP46C_fsf.long.PREDEP46_template/mri/ribbon.mgz

writing ribbon files

#-----------------------------------------

#@# AParc-to-ASeg Tue Jan 15 05:45:35 GMT 2013

/home/k0933235/paul/PREDEP_Structural/subjects2/PREDEP46C_fsf.long.PREDEP46_template

mri_aparc2aseg --s PREDEP46C_fsf.long.PREDEP46_template --volmask

reading colortable from annotation file...

colortable with 36 entries read (originally /autofs/space/amaebi_026/users/buckner_cortical_atlas/scripts/colortable_final.txt)

reading colortable from annotation file...

colortable with 36 entries read (originally /autofs/space/amaebi_026/users/buckner_cortical_atlas/scripts/colortable_final.txt)

SUBJECTS_DIR /home/k0933235/paul/PREDEP_Structural/subjects2

subject PREDEP46C_fsf.long.PREDEP46_template

outvol /home/k0933235/paul/PREDEP_Structural/subjects2/PREDEP46C_fsf.long.PREDEP46_template/mri/aparc+aseg.mgz

useribbon 0

baseoffset 0

RipUnknown 0

Reading lh white surface

/home/k0933235/paul/PREDEP_Structural/subjects2/PREDEP46C_fsf.long.PREDEP46_template/surf/lh.white

Reading lh pial surface

/home/k0933235/paul/PREDEP_Structural/subjects2/PREDEP46C_fsf.long.PREDEP46_template/surf/lh.pial

Loading lh annotations from /home/k0933235/paul/PREDEP_Structural/subjects2/PREDEP46C_fsf.long.PREDEP46_template/label/lh.aparc.annot

Reading rh white surface

/home/k0933235/paul/PREDEP_Structural/subjects2/PREDEP46C_fsf.long.PREDEP46_template/surf/rh.white

Reading rh pial surface

/home/k0933235/paul/PREDEP_Structural/subjects2/PREDEP46C_fsf.long.PREDEP46_template/surf/rh.pial

Loading rh annotations from /home/k0933235/paul/PREDEP_Structural/subjects2/PREDEP46C_fsf.long.PREDEP46_template/label/rh.aparc.annot

Have color table for lh white annotation

Have color table for rh white annotation

Loading ribbon segmentation from /home/k0933235/paul/PREDEP_Structural/subjects2/PREDEP46C_fsf.long.PREDEP46_template/mri/ribbon.mgz

Building hash of lh white

Building hash of lh pial

Building hash of rh white

Building hash of rh pial

Loading aseg from /home/k0933235/paul/PREDEP_Structural/subjects2/PREDEP46C_fsf.long.PREDEP46_template/mri/aseg.mgz

ASeg Vox2RAS: -----------

-1.000 0.000 0.000 128.000;

0.000 0.000 1.000 -128.000;

0.000 -1.000 0.000 128.000;

0.000 0.000 0.000 1.000;

-------------------------

Labeling Slice

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39

40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59
################################################
 
Thanks
 
Paul

Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:59:06 -0500
From: mreuter@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
To: horton_paul@hotmail.com
CC: al.hanganu@yahoo.ca; Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] FW: longitudinal analysis


Hi Paul,

also, is this happening in the -base run or in one of the -long runs (or in all of the -long runs of that subject). What binary is running so slowly (you mentioned some output "labelling slice", can you scroll up in the log and see what exactly is running)?

Best, Martin

On 01/18/2013 02:46 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote:
how much RAM do you have in the machine? And are there other processes running at the same time? How many timepoints does the subject have?

Bruce

On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, paul horton wrote:

Hi Alex, 

Thanks for your reply. 

I am also using Linux. I have restarted the analysis a few times but the
process for this particular subject is very slow. When I try the same
analysis on a different subject using the same machine, it only takes a few
hours.  So not sure why the analysis is having problems with this particular
subject.

Best wishes

Paul

On 18 Jan 2013, at 16:40, "Alex Hanganu" <al.hanganu@yahoo.ca> wrote:

      Hi Paul,

      I also had such problems previously. My initial analyses were
      performed on mac. Though it might seem strange, some analyses
      resolved after I just restarted the computer. Other ones I
      analysed on centos. Now I am doing all the recons on linux.

      best wishes,

      Alex.



      Le 1/18 9:22, paul horton a écrit :

       
      > Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:54:48 -0500
      > From: fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
      > To: horton_paul@hotmail.com
      > Subject: RE: [Freesurfer] longitudinal analysis
      >
      > Hi Paul
      >
      > can you cc the list so that others can answer?
      >
      > thanks
      > Bruce
      > On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, paul
      > horton wrote:
      >
      > > Hi Brian,
      > >  
      > > Thanks for your reply.
      > >  
      > > I am running freesurfer 4.5.0.  We are using the older
      version so that the
      > > analyses performed are the same across subjects.
      > >  
      > > Best wishes
      > >  
      > > Paul
      > >  
      > > Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:21:05 -0500
      > > From: fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
      > > To: horton_paul@hotmail.com
      > > CC: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
      > > Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] longitudinal analysis
      > >
      > > Hi Paul
      > >
      > > what is the actual binary being run?
      > >
      > > Bruce
      > > On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, paul horton wrote:
      > >
      > > > Hi guys,
      > > >  
      > > > I am currently running a longitudinal analysis on a
      set of scan.  It is
      > > > currently running and so far it has taken 5 days. It
      seems to be taking a
      > > > large amount of time on a process called labelling
      slice. I have run the
      > > > same analysis on other subjects which took about 6
      hours to complete.  So
      > > I
      > > > was wondering if you know of any reason why a set of
      scans would take long
      > > er
      > > > to process than others.  I have checked the inital
      scans and nothing seems
      > > > obviously wrong with them.
      > > >  
      > > > Best Wishes
      > > >  
      > > > Paul
      > > >
      > > >
      > >
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