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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 02 2012 - 16:38:30 CDT

Hi,
  What did you change the resolution to? The higher the resolution,
the more memory Tachyon needs. It is possible that your machine ran out
of memory during the run. How far did it get before you got the segfault?

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
 

On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 05:25:43PM -0400, Fatemesadat Emami wrote:
> Dear vmd users,
> I am trying to render high quality images with tachyon (windows version).
> I create the vmdscene.dat by using the vmd->file->render->tachyon, but
> when I edit the script file (increase the resolution) and copy the command
> in the vmd command line interface I get the error "child killed:
> segmentation violation"
> This is while if use the original script file I can regenerate the image
> successfully.
> Does anyone know why this is happening?
> Thanks
>
> --
> Yours Sincerely,
> Fateme Sadat Emami
> Nano Scale Laboratory
> Polymer Engineering Department
> The University of Akron 

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