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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 08 2007 - 17:38:50 CST

Hi,
  How large are the sequences and structures you're working with that
are giving trouble with Multiseq? It's possible you've found a bug in
multiseq or that you've run into a particular interaction of Multiseq
and VMD. If you can tell us more about the structures and sequences
you're loading, that would be helpful. People in some of the labs here
at UIUC are working with very large structures (ribosome) in multiseq
without any trouble, so the more information you can provide us the
more likely we can figure out why you're having trouble. When you run
Multiseq on your data, how much memory does 'top' report that VMD is using?

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:21:27PM -0300, Marcelo Puiatti wrote:
> Hello, I´m a user of VMD since 1.82 version.
> This week I tried the Multiseq tool of the 1.85 version but the memory of
> the video card is overloaded, the computer couldn´t handdle and I have to
> reboot it.
> This is a rare problem because I´ve openned until 6 vmd windows with cartoon
> representation wihtout problems, but with Multiseq the computer dies and I
> have to reboot. I´m running vmd in computer with Mandriva 10.0 distribution
> with a Nvidia Ge-Force video card of 256 Mb, and 1Gb of RAM.
> When I run multiseq with another computer with onboard video card, the
> computer still work but it blocks the video display manager.
>
> The multiseq tool is very usefull and necessary for me rigth now, but I
> cannot use it in my computers.
> Does anyone know how to solve my problem?
> Does anyone have this problem before?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Marcelo 

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