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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2005 - 10:12:00 CST

Hi,
  Which version of VMD are you running, and have you updated the
plugins on your copy of VMD, or are you still using the original
parm7 plugin that shipped with that version? (we've made some
substantial improvements to the parm7/rst7 readers in the past year)
Try the test version of VMD 1.8.3 if you're not comfortable updating
your plugins just now:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/alpha/

If you still have trouble loading the files with the new version,
let me know.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:00:13AM -0500, Guanglei Cui wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> I have amber7 topology (parm7) and restart file (rst) of a large system
> (over 260,000 atoms). I tried to look at the structure with VMD. But VMD
> just hangs at reading the topology file, and eventually I had to force
> quit (I'm using VMD for Mac OSX). I wonder if anyone has had this
> problem before and how I can get around it. I know VMD handles a system
> of over 180,000 atoms just fine. Thanks in advance
>
> Guanglei
>
> BTW, my computer has 512 Mbytes of memory. 

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