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From: Lance Pickens (lancepickens_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jul 20 2004 - 14:20:24 CDT

I am using the pre-compiled version of VMD 1.8.2 on an Apple using OS
X v10.3.4 on a
dual G5 system with 512mb of ram. My trajectory is 30mb in size.
Tkcon becomes very sluggish, and so does VMD once the trajectory
average has been completed, it can take several seconds for the Tkcon
window to respond to commands. When I said 'reset' Tkcon I was hoping
on clearing the memory since I have set several variables which
contain large chunks of my trajectory.

Lance Pickens

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:01:54 -0500, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Lance,
> What version of VMD are you running, and on which platform?
> How much memory does your computer have? You should have at least
> as much _free_ memory as the size of the trajectory file you're
> going to analyze if you want VMD to perform very well. If you're
> using an old version of VMD you may have encountered a memory leak,
> but hopefully not, more likely it is an issue of how much free memory
> you've got. You asked about how to 'reset' TkCon, can you be more
> specific about what you want to do to it?
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 08:29:31PM -0500, Lance Pickens wrote:
> > I have been using the script (Trajectory_Smooth) from the script
> > library to calculate my average structure from a trajectory. The
> > problem is after the calculation is done VMD becomes very very
> > sluggish. There are only 500 frames in my trajectory so it is not
> > exremely large. Is there a way to reset tkcon?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Lance Pickens
> >
> > Illinois Institute of Technology
> > Chicago, Illinois
>
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