In the spirit of more concurring I can also say that we have seen trouble
with Analysis and memory on our SUN Blade 1500's (that have 1Gb of RAM)
where the CPU crunches for ages. It does seem to clear when the program is
saved, killed and restarted but that is if you have the patience to wait to
be able to write before killing!
Mark
>>And I think there are still memory leaks, possibly/probably related
>>to the Tk graphics, so that would mean this problem would get worse with
>>use.
>
>I concur. The process had grown to 540Mb by the time I was doing this (cf
>approx 240Mb just after startup) and even quitting (not including the
>save) took approx 10 mins. Immediately after restarting the project,
>quitting takes a few seconds at most and switching between
>pymol/import/display and analysis is fast.
>
>Incidentally, all the activity in my system is in RAM so this is not a
>swapping to disk problem. top does not show any significant I/O, system or
>wait activity during the thrash. Dunno if that means anything though.
>
>Brian
>
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> Division of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology,
> Institute Biomedical & Life Sciences,
>Joseph Black Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.
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