[Insight-users] MetaImageIO problem

[Kevin H. Hobbs]

Thank you Luis, for the explanation.

5GB is just too close to my actual RAM + swap limit, so faking it would
just produce false failures.

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 12:32 -0400, Luis Ibanez wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> 
>    You have set up the variable to 4GB.
> 
> However, the condition for the test is set up in
> 
>     Insight/Testing/Code/IO/CMakeLists.txt
> 
> In lines 214-224.
> 
> The test requires
> 
>     IF( ${ITK_COMPUTER_MEMORY_SIZE} GREATER 5 )
> 
> Because we create a > 2GB image, then saves it and then
> reads it again.
> 
> In order to force the test to run you could fake the
> number to 6GB.
> 
> Note that you could also reduce the test to just write a
> file >2Gb, without attempting to read it again. In which
> case, 3Gb of RAM will be more than enough.
> 
> 
> That being said,...
> Our observation is that, unfortunately, the MetaImage library
> is not currently functional for writing files larger than 2Gb.
> 
> This has been entered as an issue in the Bug tracker:
> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=6716
> 
> It is unlikely that we will manage to fix
> this before cutting the release of ITK 3.6   :-/
> 
> 
> 
>     Regards,
> 
> 
>        Luis
> 
> 
> ----------------------
> Kevin H. Hobbs wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 23:30 -0400, Luis Ibanez wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi Kevin,
> >>
> >>That should do the trick.
> > 
> > 
> > I have set this variable on gargon, but the test is not run.
> > 
> > http://www.itk.org/Testing/Sites/gargon.hooperlab/Linux-gcc-4.1.2-x86_64/20080407-0100-Nightly/Notes.html
> > 
> > Only redwall.kitware runs this test and it has some options that are new
> > to me. That is almost everything after BUILD_EXAMPLES is new to me, but
> > it doesn't sound like they should effect MetaImageIO.
> > 
> > 
> >>Are you looking for enabling the tests of MetaImage files
> >>for images larger than 2Gb ?
> > 
> > 
> > Yes, I want to see that large images work. 
> > 
> > My friend with the confocal microscope can make some whoppers :-)
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