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From: Monika Madhavi (monikamadhavi_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 20 2015 - 01:56:32 CDT

Thank you for the reply. Here is the code.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:15 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> My guess is that you're either opening or creating a large number of
> files via
> "mol new" or "mol addfile" without using the "waitfor all" flag, or a
> similar
> issue. Without the code it's difficult to say what may be going wrong.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:59:34AM +0530, Monika Madhavi wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I wrote a tcl script to trace the trajectories of few atoms out of
> 30000
> > atoms of 10000 frames. I loaded the psf and dcd files and sourced the
> > script and executed it. The same script worked perfectly for a small
> no of
> > frames (10) but when I try to run it for 10000 frames it gives me an
> error
> > saying "couldn't open "file13": too many open files". I checked
> through
> > the script and all atomselect commands are deleted and all files are
> > closed. I would be grateful if someone can let me know the cause of
> this
> > error and a solution to this.
> >
> > Thank you.
> > Monika
> > --
> > W.A.Monika Madhavi
> > Lecturer (Probation),
> > Department of Physics,
> > University of Colombo.
>
> --
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> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
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> 

-- 
W.A.Monika Madhavi
Lecturer (Probation),
Department of Physics,
University of Colombo.