[Eeglablist] Out of Memory Error on EDF Import (25 channels, 400 Hz)

[Guillaume Rousselet]

Jared,

4GB of RAM should be enough. The problem is whether Matlab or your  
operating system can actually use them. In my experience the only way  
to make full use of your RAM is to run Matlab under Linux. Windows XP,  
Vista, or mac OS X will fail.

Hope this help,

Best,

GAR

On 6 Sep 2009, at 02:45, Jared Saletin wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> My name is Jared Saletin. I'm a grad student at UC Berkeley, still
> learning EEGLab. I was wondering if someone may be able to help me
> with a memory problem. We are trying to read in EDFs of sleep EEG
> including 25 channels sampled at 400 Hz, recorded for about 120
> minutes. The EDFs are about 200 mb in size.
>
> We are  receiving out of memory errors despite having 4 gb of RAM in
> the systems.
>
> Should this not be enough memory for such a dataset? I'm more
> concerned because some of our sleep recordings are 4 times that  
> length.
>
> I'd appreciate any thoughts you all may have. Thanks so much!
>
> Cheers,
> Jared
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