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From: Wei Chen (cwbluesky_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon May 10 2010 - 17:37:31 CDT

Hi John,

Yes, I am running VMD 1.8.7.

Wei

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:20 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> Can you verify for me that you're running VMD 1.8.7 and not an
> older version? I have a couple of ideas as to what is happening
> here, but before I give you any suggestions the first question is
> to make sure you're running a current version of VMD.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 03:07:54PM -0700, Wei Chen wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I try to load a series of pdb files, which were extracted from a
> > trajectory. In order to save memory, I load one at a time and delete
> it
> > using "animate delete all" before loading the second one. It indeed
> saved
> > some memory, but the memory usage still keeped increasing when I
> loaded
> > hundreds pdb files. Could anybody tell me what is wrong? Is it because
> > other information than coordinates from pdb files is not deleted when
> > using "animate delete all"?
> >
> > My script is as follows:
> >
> > *************************************************************
> > set start 0
> > set end 499
> > set stride 10
> > set fileformat "%06d0.00ps.pdb"
> >
> > for {set i $start} {$i <= $end} {incr i 1} {
> > set filename [format $fileformat [expr $i]]
> > if {$i == $start} {
> > set molid [mol new $filename type pdb waitfor all]
> > puts "molid = $molid"
> > } else {
> > animate read pdb $filename waitfor all $molid
> > }
> >
> > animate delete all
> > puts "delete $filename"
> >
> > }
> >
> > quit
> > ************************************************************
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Wei Chen
>
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