<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Christian Rickert wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div>At the university, I saved a huge project of mine containing a density map and multiple (!) rigid-body fitted pdbs.</div> <div>Although this system is a 32-bit Kubuntu 8.04 only (4 Gig of RAM installed), I observed the same problems with my 64-bit SUSE 10.3 (4 Gig of RAM installed as well) at work.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Creating this project took me two days in total, so I really would appreciate any suggestions from you ...</div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Hi Christian,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>It's possible that your shell is imposing a limit on memory use by a single process. Before starting Chimera, remove the memory limit of your shell by typing:<br></div><div><br></div><div>csh-type shell: unlimit</div><div><br></div><div>sh-type shell: ulimit -v unlimited</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Let me know if this helps or not.<br></div><div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> Eric Pettersen</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> <a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</a></font></div></div><br><div></div></div></body></html>