Am Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2008 schrieb Christian Seifert:
> Hi!
>
> I'm working with big structures and even bigger trajectories. When I try
> to load a trajectory, pymol takes the full 2GB RAM and freezes my PC
> (ubuntu 7.10/gnome/core 2 duo/2 GB RAM). The only way out is pulling the
> plug. :-(
>
> My Question:
> Is there a possibility to reduce the memory used by pymol?
> The "nice" command did not work, because it just reduces the available
> CPU time for pymol and not the available memory.
On linux systems, you could try ulimit to limit the maximum available memory
for current shell and all spawned processes.
ulimit -a
shows current setup
ulimit -v SizeInKB
allows setting of a limit in current shell.
Best
Martin
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