In case you aren't aware, there is a 64-bit version of Igor Pro 6, but that's Windows only. Once you get into experiment sizes in the multiple gigabytes, you're going to get inconsistent behavior and in my opinion it's not worth spending much time trying to squeeze as much data as possible into the experiment. If you're not able/willing to use the 64-bit Igor Pro 7 beta, your best bet for the moment is to load less data per experiment. But if memory fragmentation is the problem, you're likely to get inconsistent out of memory errors because the exact state of your memory will change from time to time. If you're running into memory fragmentation issues, it's possible that Igor could allocate memory for three separate x, y, and z waves but would not be able to allocate memory for a single 2D wave.
You haven't specifically described the circumstances under which you are getting the out of memory error, so it's hard to say for sure. Specifically for handling few 100's of images. I am looking for Igor7 official release to increase memory.īeforehand, are there any difference between using image as matrix or x, y, z waves, in terms of memory?
