[Mrtrix-discussion] Sreamtrack error

[Matteo Diano]

Hi Jeurissen and Donald,
thank you very much for your helpfulness. I am going to try to install
MRtrix in Centos.
Cheers

Matteo



2013/5/7 Jeurissen Ben <Ben.Jeurissen at ua.ac.be>

>  As Donald explained, MRtrix on Windows is compiled as a 32-bit
> executable. A default 64-bit Windows installation will only allow you to
> address 2 GB of ram (
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366778(v=vs.85).aspx).
> This is why streamtrack fails as soon as your file reaches 2GB of size.
>
>  A 64-bit Windows executable would solve this issue, but unfortunately I
> haven't been able to get the visualization part of mrtrix working properly
> in a 64-bit version on Windows...
>
>  Currently, the only way around this is to use the 64-bit Linux or MacOS
> version.
>
>  Hopefully, future releases will include a 64-bit version on Windows.
>
>
>
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> *From:* mrtrix-discussion-bounces at public.nitrc.org [
> mrtrix-discussion-bounces at public.nitrc.org] on behalf of Matteo Diano [
> matteo.diano at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 07 May 2013 09:37
> *To:* Donald Tournier
> *Cc:* mrtrix mailinglist
> *Subject:* Re: [Mrtrix-discussion] Sreamtrack error
>
>    Hi Donald,
>  thank you for your answer. I am working on SSD formatted in NTFS with 16G
> of RAM and the size of the file is around 2G. So I have no idea about this
> issue.
>  Cheers
>
>  Matteo
>
>
> 2013/5/7 Donald Tournier <d.tournier at brain.org.au>
>
>> Hi Matteo,
>>
>>  Sounds to me like you've hit a file size limit. What is the size of the
>> tracks file when it fails? It might be due to the 32-bit 4GB boundary
>> (MRtrix on Windows is compiled as a 32-bit executable, as far as I know),
>> but it could also be due to a limitation of your filesystem. Are you
>> writing the tracks to a NTFS partition, or a FAT partition? If the latter,
>> you'll definitely encounter issues like you describe...
>>
>>  Hope this helps,
>>
>>  Donald.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  On 7 May 2013 16:49, Matteo Diano <matteo.diano at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>    Dear MRtrix experts,
>>>  I tried to use streamtrack SB_PROB to obtain the whole brain tracking
>>> to fed into the TDI processing (so more than 1 million fibers). Every time
>>> I got this error: "973180 generated,   772168 selected    [
>>> 19%]streamtrack: error writing to tracks file: Invalid argument". I tried
>>> to change data but i had the same problem and it always stops around 18
>>> percent. I am using MRtrix on win 7 64b.
>>>  Thank you very much!
>>>  Regards
>>>
>>>  Matteo
>>>
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