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Sounds like a bug. Curing the symptoms won't help .... You should send full details to [log in to unmask] Since CCP4 6.0.x there has been a substantially new version of Acorn. Source code at http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/download/prerelease_page.php#acorn or try our test 6.1 release ... Martyn On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 13:15 -0400, [log in to unmask] wrote: > All, > > In the past couple of days I have been trying to use Acorn (in the > CCP4 suite of programs). Consistently it starts up fine and after some > small amount of time (5-10 minutes) it has taken up all the physical > memory and then it starts to slowly gobble up all the swap space until > the only option is to switch the computer off, since all processes > (including X and such) are being pushed out of memory and they somehow > are not swapped back in. > > Is there a way to restrict the amount of memory that Acorn is allowed > to use? Any other suggestions? Parameters to restrict memory I do not > see and the Acorn web page does also not mention that they exist, > neither does it have any suggestions what to do. > > We are using CentOS operating system on 64-bit hardware (I think > CentOS is vanilla Linux but 64-bit may not be vanilla). We are using > CCP4 version 6.0. > > Any suggestions are appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Mark > > Mark van der Woerd, PhD > > Research Scientist II > > Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology > > Colorado State University > > Fort Collins, CO 80523 > > Phone (970) 491-0469 > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > The Famous, the Infamous, the Lame - in your browser. Get the TMZ > Toolbar Now! -- *********************************************************************** * * * Dr. Martyn Winn * * * * STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, Warrington, WA4 4AD, U.K. * * Tel: +44 1925 603455 E-mail: [log in to unmask] * * Fax: +44 1925 603825 Skype name: martyn.winn * * URL: http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/martyn/ * ***********************************************************************