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From: Ashar Malik (asharjm_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Mar 02 2018 - 17:25:43 CST

What version of VMD are you using?

On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 11:07 AM, Rose, Stuart Wallace <swrose_at_illinois.edu>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I know there are work arounds for processing large DCD trajectory files
> without loading the whole thing into VMD. However I am trying to load a
> trajectory file and I should have plenty of RAM but VMD keeps quiting. I
> am running on Windows 10 with 16 GB of ram; 8 processors and one GPU. My
> trajectory has 942 frames and takes up about 3.5 GB of space. When I start
> loading DCD trajectory using either animate with "waitfor all" or using the
> load dialogue with either option of load in background or not, VMD
> consistently fails at around frame 810.
>
> This point of failure occurs if I load separate files with smaller chunks
> of frames or load frames in batches of 100 right up to around frame 810. I
> monitor the system memory with task manager and see that the available
> memory goes from 7.6 GB to about 5.2 GB where VMD stops. I know this is an
> issue in other posts but there is plenty of memory available in this
> case. How do I load the trajectory without reducing the number of frames?
>
> Regards,
> Stuart
>
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