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From: Tom Bartl (tom.helmut.bartl_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sat Mar 16 2019 - 14:10:48 CDT

Hi,
Im having issues with crashing VMD on Mac on multiple ocasions, most often when i try to open quite large tajectory files (.dcd file, 176000 atoms, 50 frames).
In terminal the folowing lines are writen after the last succesful line

VMD(30559,0x600a40) malloc: can't allocate region
*** mach_vm_map(size=2265628672) failed (error code=3)
VMD(30559,0x600a40) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
/Applications/VMD 1.9.4.app/Contents/MacOS/startup.command: line 7: 30559 Segmentation fault: 11 "$p/../Resources/VMD.app/Contents/MacOS/VMD" $*
logout
Saving session...
..copying shared history...
..saving history...truncating history files...
…completed.

Mac than opens Problem report window stating the process that crashed is "vmd_MACOSXX86 [30559]”

>From similar problems here reported here earlier (for example https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/26325.html) i understand it has something to do with memory allocation on 32 bit Macs. Is there any solution? 64bit version of VMD maybe?

Thanks a lot, Tom

running a macOS Mojave 10.14.3 on MacBook Air early 2015, 1,6 GHz Intel Core i5, 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, Intel HD Graphics 6000 1536 MB