Scott,
The optimal hash_max is somewhat scenery-dependent, but values in
the 180-250 range tend to be best for multiprocessor situations with lots of
RAM.
Cheers,
Warren
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Scott Classen
> Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 10:49 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [PyMOL] having problems with batch rendering
>
> Hello Fellow PyMOLers,
> I have submitted a huge movie (i.e. 520 frames rendered at
> 1280x854) job to pymol on one of our linux grunts. PyMOL,
> much to my surprise actually recognized that the grunt has
> two multithreaded processors and subsequently split the
> rendering job amongst the available processors. However, the
> rendering is proceeding extremely slowly, and from the
> process table (see below) it appears that PyMOL is only using
> 5.4% of the system memory. Is there some max_hash command I
> can put in my pymol script to make things go faster? Right
> now each frame is taking 25-30 minutes to render. YIKES!!!!
> That means my movie won't be done until next week sometime.
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
> here is the out put from top:
>
> 70 processes: 68 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU0 states: 100.0% user 0.0% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 0.0% idle
> CPU1 states: 100.0% user 0.0% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 0.0% idle
> CPU2 states: 100.0% user 0.0% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 0.0% idle
> CPU3 states: 99.4% user 0.1% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 0.0% idle
> Mem: 2064408k av, 1980616k used, 83792k free, 0k shrd,
> 514360k buff 1464856k actv, 2516k in_d, 13536k in_c
> Swap: 2048276k av, 7064k used, 2041212k free 932396k cached
>
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
> 4115 classen 25 0 109M 109M 2996 R 99.9 5.4 5390m 1 pymol.exe
> 15131 classen 15 0 1136 1136 864 R 0.1 0.0 0:00 3 top
> 1 root 15 0 104 76 52 S 0.0 0.0 0:51 0 init
> 2 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 migration/0
> 3 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 migration/1
> 4 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 2 migration/2
> 5 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 3 migration/3
> 6 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:48 2 keventd
> 7 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 ksoftirqd_CPU0
> 8 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 ksoftirqd_CPU1
> 9 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 2 ksoftirqd_CPU2
>
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