Hello Fellow PyMOLers,
I have submitted a huge movie (i.e. 520 frames rendered at 1280x854)
job to pymol on one of our linux grunts. PyMOL, much to my surprise
actually recognized that the grunt has two multithreaded processors and
subsequently split the rendering job amongst the available processors.
However, the rendering is proceeding extremely slowly, and from the
process table (see below) it appears that PyMOL is only using 5.4% of
the system memory. Is there some max_hash command I can put in my pymol
script to make things go faster? Right now each frame is taking 25-30
minutes to render. YIKES!!!! That means my movie won't be done until
next week sometime.
Thanks,
Scott
here is the out put from top:
70 processes: 68 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states: 100.0% user 0.0% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait
0.0% idle
CPU1 states: 100.0% user 0.0% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait
0.0% idle
CPU2 states: 100.0% user 0.0% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait
0.0% idle
CPU3 states: 99.4% user 0.1% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait
0.0% idle
Mem: 2064408k av, 1980616k used, 83792k free, 0k shrd,
514360k buff
1464856k actv, 2516k in_d, 13536k in_c
Swap: 2048276k av, 7064k used, 2041212k free
932396k cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU
COMMAND
4115 classen 25 0 109M 109M 2996 R 99.9 5.4 5390m 1
pymol.exe
15131 classen 15 0 1136 1136 864 R 0.1 0.0 0:00 3 top
1 root 15 0 104 76 52 S 0.0 0.0 0:51 0 init
2 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
migration/0
3 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 1
migration/1
4 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 2
migration/2
5 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 3
migration/3
6 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:48 2
keventd
7 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
ksoftirqd_CPU0
8 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 1
ksoftirqd_CPU1
9 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 2
ksoftirqd_CPU2
