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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 14 2007 - 00:50:21 CDT

Hi,
  Make sure that you're deleting your atom selections as
you process frames. Most likely you're using up all of your
memory by not deleting your atom selections...
e.g.:
  set sel [atomselec top "all"]
needs to have a matching:
  $sel delete

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
  

On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 12:17:54AM -0400, lanhua wrote:
> Hi,
> I installed VMD under windows XP. I ran a script doing some calculations with about 10000 loops, while in the middle the vmd died with an error message "winvmd has encountered a problem, and needs to close". Can anyone tell me what's wrong. Is this because too much CPU was used or something else?
> Thanks.
>
> Lan 

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