setup_forward_model duration

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Dear MNEs,

I wonder myself how long the mne_setup_forward_model is usually expected to run.
I started the routine calling 'mne_setup_forward_model --surf -ico 4
--overwrite' about 9 hours ago, with all environmental variables set,
and it still is not completed.
At this point I cannot monitor the command line output which runs my
office computer (Debian Wheezy [testing] 64bit) but I can see via ssh
that the process still is running.
What irritated me was that following the output it should take a few
minutes and that the output got 'frozen' after a few lines for a
couple of hours.

Any pointers would be highly appreciated.

--Denis

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Denis,

Do you really have an option specified as -ico 4, with one dash. Two dashes are needed. Otherwise the BEM surfaces are not decimated and it takes ages to run the three-compartment model, which you do not need unless you are analyzing EEG alone or EEG + MEG

- Matti

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Thanks Matti,

indeed that was it, I wasn't aware of that, actually it was a typo.
Good to know about these differences.

-Denis

2012/9/15 Matti Hamalainen <msh at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>: