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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 18 2009 - 17:02:20 CDT

Hi,
  It sounds to me like you're running the PowerPC version of MSMS
on an Intel-based Mac under automatic emulation... What happens
if you set this environment variable in VMD:
  set env(VMDMSMSUSEFILE) 1
(or in your global bash/csh config prior to starting VMD)

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 12:09:57AM -0500, Cesar Millan wrote:
> Hi everyone, I'm tryong to run vmd 1.8.7a63 in a macbook, when I download a
> pdb and try to represent it with a MSMS surface appears the following
> message:
>
> Info) Starting MSMS with: 'msms -no_area -socketPort 1357 &'
> msms(879) malloc: *** mmap(size=3623616512) failed (error code=12)
> *** error: can't allocate region
> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
> ERROR) Unknown MSMS message: multivac.local: get_atom_no_num: Memory
> allocation failed...Too many or Too few points : -1
>
> If I try to do the same but with vmd 1.8.6 everything runs fine. Also, when
> working with vmd 1.8.7a63 appears a "cursor" on the left of the pointer,
> this is no a problem I just want to nottice.
>
> Best regards.
>
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