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From: Olaf Lenz (lenzo_at_mpip-mainz.mpg.de)
Date: Wed Jan 06 2010 - 05:57:47 CST

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Hi!

On 01/06/2010 11:32 AM, maria goranovic wrote:
> I am using VMD v. 1.8.6 to load up a trajectory of ~ 1.2 GB on the VMD
> GUI on my linux box which has 4GB memory, and a 512 MB Nvidia card. VMD
> hangs up, and freezes the entire system. Any ideas why this should
> happen ? VMD also slows down considerably when I load up such large
> files. Any ideas or solutions?

VMD 1.8.6 consumes a lot of memory for the particle data. This has
improved significantly with the latest VMD version (1.8.7). So, the
solution is to install VMD 1.8.7.

Olaf

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