Hello,

I can also confirm this behaviour. Furthermore if I use an index group,
that just contains 1 molecule and compare the results from an analysis
with the flag -mol and without, then I obtain different results which
should not be the case.
/Flo


On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 09:28 +0200, Ivan Gladich wrote: 
> Dear all,
>   I found the same problem that Sławomir  pointed out 10 days ago about 
> the memory usage in the computation of g_msd.
> 
> 
> I have 100 ns simulation for 2880 water molecules. The trajectory is 
> savede every 1 ps: this means that I have 100000 frame
> 
> I think that there is a strange memory problem only when the option -mol 
> is used
> Indeed, if I use
> 
> g_msd_d -f ../t230.xtc -s ../t230.tpr -n index.ndx -o msdt230.xvg -b 
> 4000 -e 100000 -beginfit 5000 -endfit 25000 -trestart 20 -type x
> 
> the g_msd does not have any problem
> 
> by the way using the option -mol (as Sławomir did in the last e-mails)
> 
> g_msd_d -f ../t230.xtc -s ../t230.tpr -n index.ndx -o msdt230.xvg -b 
> 4000 -e 100000 -beginfit 5000 -endfit 25000 -trestart 20 -type x -mol
> 
> g_msd crashes and memory information (see below) points out that this 
> crash is due by the memory overflow.
> 
> Thanks a lot
> Ivan
> 
> Tasks: 478 total,   5 running, 473 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s):  0.0%us,  0.5%sy, 12.7%ni, 77.7%id,  9.1%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  
> 0.0%st
> Mem:  65459256k total, 65382420k used,    76836k free,        0k buffers
> Swap: 32009508k total,  5360348k used, 26649160k free,     6312k cached
> 
> 
> 
> On 06/27/11 15:40, Tsjerk Wassenaar wrote:
> > Hi Slawomir,
> >
> > That's quite a usage of memory! Can you provide more information? Like
> > the number of frames in the trajectory, the command line you used, and
> > the system you ran on?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Tsjerk
> >
> > 2011/6/27 Sławomir Stachura<stachura.slawo...@gmail.com>:
> >> Hi GMX Users,
> >> I am writting this email, beacause I think the g_msd program in Gromacs 
> >> 4.5.4 bears a problem. I was calculating the MSD od center of mass of POPC 
> >> in membrane (system contains 274 POPC lipid molecules in all-atom force 
> >> field) from 50 ns trajectory and it seems to consume great amount of 
> >> memory. With  time of calculations the memory reserves are gradually 
> >> devoured to the extent, in my case,  of over 600 GB (than my administrator 
> >> of cluster killed the process). It seems that it does not release memory 
> >> and it's pilling results up with steps  in memory. Have you heard of such 
> >> case?
> >> Best wishes,
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