[PyMOL] PyMol memory, disk, and CPU usage

2012-02-09 Thread John Ladasky
I'm currently using PyMol 1.4.1 on Ubuntu Linux 11.10.  My hardware is fairly up-to-date, an AMD 6-core, 3.2 GHz CPU ,and 4 GB of DDR1200 RAM.  My only old hardware is my NVidia 8800 GTS graphics card.  I have started to assemble rather large visualizations. I am noticing CPU performance lags, a

Re: [PyMOL] PyMol memory, disk, and CPU usage

2012-02-09 Thread Pete Meyer
I've run into similar situations in the past, although in my case usually due to large maps (a 3.5 MB pdb file, or even a set of them, typically requires less memory than a ~50MB electron density map). In my experience, it's much better to load things from scripts (pml) rather than storing thi

[PyMOL] PyMOL v1.5 -- Release and Update

2012-02-09 Thread Jason Vertrees
Greetings, The last few months have been exciting here at Schrödinger trying to get PyMOL v1.5 out the door. We released it a few weeks ago and the features (http://pymol.org/features) seem to be well-received. I am happy to announce that we're focusing on pushing many of those features into the