Colossal memory burden

[Daniel, Laura, and Nora]

My little P3 at work began running as slow as molasses when the new protein came out, so slow that opening a new word document could take over 1 minute. The harddrive was spinning constantly. The foldtrajlite footprint had increased from 24K to 75K. My box has only 128K memory. Has anyone else run into this problem? My DF production is going to cease because of this unless there's an easy solution.

[Bruce]

Originally posted by Daniel, Laura, and Nora
. . . My DF production is going to cease because of this unless there's an easy solution.

Add ram?:idea: :p

It's not a lot different over at FAH/GAH. As the science improves, the software gets bigger . . . and the proteins that are being worked on get bigger.

You can go search for LGM. ;) The fundamental software is improving very slowly and there's no need to work on bigger chunks of data.

[pelligrini]

If you're running the -rt switch, you can remove it. That would slow production but it is already being slowed by paging too.

or you can add more RAM.. :rolleyes:

[MikeTimbers]

with -rt I use 128MB RAM for DF, without it, I use 25MB.

[phil]

Originally posted by Daniel, Laura, and Nora
The foldtrajlite footprint had increased from 24K to 75K. My box has only 128K memory.


That's the problem....you should try running it on a modern machine with a decent amount of RAM. Hell, I had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 15 years ago with 128K or RAM ;)