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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 20 2015 - 01:45:18 CDT

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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