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From: Guanglei Cui (cuigl_at_psu.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2005 - 11:06:21 CST

Thanks. I'll try what you suggested. I'm using 1.8.2.

Guanglei

John Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> Which version of VMD are you running, and have you updated the
> plugins on your copy of VMD, or are you still using the original
> parm7 plugin that shipped with that version? (we've made some
> substantial improvements to the parm7/rst7 readers in the past year)
> Try the test version of VMD 1.8.3 if you're not comfortable updating
> your plugins just now:
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/alpha/
>
> If you still have trouble loading the files with the new version,
> let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:00:13AM -0500, Guanglei Cui wrote:
>
>>Hi, all
>>
>>I have amber7 topology (parm7) and restart file (rst) of a large system
>>(over 260,000 atoms). I tried to look at the structure with VMD. But VMD
>>just hangs at reading the topology file, and eventually I had to force
>>quit (I'm using VMD for Mac OSX). I wonder if anyone has had this
>>problem before and how I can get around it. I know VMD handles a system
>>of over 180,000 atoms just fine. Thanks in advance
>>
>>Guanglei
>>
>>BTW, my computer has 512 Mbytes of memory.
>
>