[OpenSPIM] Software hangs during stack capture

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi Alexis,

On Tue, 30 Jul 2013, Alexis Maizel wrote:

> I noticed that upon acquisition of a stack  written to disk, OpenSPIM
> occasionally pauses in the middle of the acquisition for  some seconds
> to several minutes. I have only observed this when the stack is written
> to disk, not when the same stack is left in RAM and opened immediately.
> I tried to turn ON/OFF the asynchronous writing option but that did not
> change anything. 

Are you running an anti-virus software that could be at fault?

> The stacks in question were 2048*2048*101 at 16bit on a 32bit Fiji (1024Meg
> of RAM allocated to Fiji) running on Windows 7 Pro. 
>
> Also I have noticed that I can not increase the memory allocated to Fiji
> beyond 1024M as it causes the HamamatsuHam driver to not load properly. 

Yes, that is unfortunately not something we can fix until we switch to a
64-bit version (which should be doable soon, given the hardware).

Ciao,
Johannes