Sounds right, since my fsl_sub is missing that part! I have fsl version
5.0.9 running, with the fsl_sub that came with it. Where is your version of
fsl_sub from?

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Joseph Orr <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sounds like you might be using an old version of fsl_sub. You should have
> a section in fsl_sub that starts with "$command V1.0beta" that has the
> following options for fsl-sub:
>
>   -T <minutes>          Estimated job length in minutes, used to auto-set
> queue name
>             This is helpful if you don't set a FSL default queue.
>   -q <queuename>        Name of FSL defualt queue possible values for
> <queuename>
>             are "verylong.q", "long.q" and "short.q". See below for
> details.
>   -Q <queuename>    Name of Wash U Queue to use, one of (dque, dque_HT,
> dque_smp)
>   -a <arch-name>        Architecture [e.g., darwin or lx24-amd64]
>   -p <job-priority>     Lower priority [0:-1024] default =
> 0
>   -M <email-address>    Who to email, default = none
>   -j <jid>              Place a hold on this task until job jid has
> completed
>   -t <filename>         Specify a task file of commands to execute in
> parallel
>   -N <jobname>          Specify jobname as it will appear on queue
>   -n <nCPUs>            Number of CPUs per node that job will use (default
> = 1)
>   -R <RAM>              Max total RAM to use for job (integer in MB)
>   -l <logdirname>       Where to output logfiles
>   -m <mailoptions>      Change the notification mail options, see qsub for
> details
>   -F                    Use flags embedded in scripts to set SGE queuing
> options
>   -v                    Verbose mode.
>
> -R is the MB of RAM you are allocating for the job. You may run in to
> problems with other FSL tools with large HCP datasets, basically for
> fslmerge and fslmaths commands you'll need to modify to allocate more RAM.
>
> --
> Joseph M. Orr, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Psychology
> Texas A&M University
> College Station, TX
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Sarah Heilbronner <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Stam,
>>
>> Thanks for thinking this through with me! I added what you suggested, but
>> I'm getting an error saying that -R is in invalid option. And when I look
>> inside fsl_sub, I don't see any -R flags. Any ideas?
>>
>> for reference, that line is now:
>> preprocid=`${FSLDIR}/bin/fsl_sub -T 60 -R 10000 -m as -N bpx_preproc -l
>> ${subjdir}.bedpostX/logs ${FSLDIR}/bin/bedpostx_preproc.sh ${subjdir}
>> ${gflag}`
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sarah
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Stamatios Sotiropoulos <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> If the problem is in fslslice, this is likely a memory problem.
>>> Depending on how strict your queueing software is and what are the memory
>>> limits for each queue, it may kill or not the preproc job if it thinks it
>>> asks too much memory. Notice that the HCP data are an order of magnitude
>>> larger than conventional data and this may cause such problems. All you
>>> need to do is change the amount of memory requested when queuing
>>> bpx_preproc.
>>>
>>> In the $FSLDIR/bin/bedpostx script, the line to modify (e.g. by adding
>>> fsl_sub -T 60 -R 10000…) would be the following:
>>>
>>> preprocid=`${FSLDIR}/bin/fsl_sub -T 60 -m as -N bpx_preproc -l
>>> ${subjdir}.bedpostX/logs ${FSLDIR}/bin/bedpostx_preproc.sh ${subjdir}
>>> ${gflag}`
>>>
>>>
>>> By the way the “ -rician “ flag should be “ --rician"
>>>
>>> Hope this helps
>>> Stam
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6 May 2016, at 14:56, Sarah Heilbronner <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've been trying to run bedpostx on a single subject's HCP preprocessed
>>> diffusion data (I haven't made any changes from the initial download) on
>>> our cluster. I've run it a number of different ways, and always seem to get
>>> the same error:
>>> /software/fsl/5.0.7/fsl/bin/bedpostx_preproc.sh: line 77: 97699
>>> Killed
>>>  ${FSLDIR}/bin/fslslice ${subjdir}/data
>>>
>>> Seems to be encountering a problem with the fslslice line inside
>>> bedpostx_preproc.
>>>
>>> For reference, I'm using the latest version of FSL. I'm entering this
>>> command:
>>> bedpostx subject#/T1w/Diffusion -n 3 -model 2 -g -rician
>>>
>>> I've also tested some variations, like without grad_dev/g, etc, always
>>> getting the same error message. Any help?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sarah Heilbronner
>>> University of Rochester
>>>
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