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 <vdi...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > Freesurfer mailing list > Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer > > > The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it > is > addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the > e-mail > contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance > HelpLine at > http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in > error > but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and > properly > dispose of the e-mail. > >
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