Re: [PyMOL] pymol does not free-up the RAM when objects are deleted

[Thomas H. <tho...@sc...>]

Hi Osvaldo,

you are right, I can reproduce this. We'll look into it and let you know when it has been fixed.

Cheers,
  Thomas

On 02 Apr 2014, at 20:30, Osvaldo Martin <alo...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to run an script based on PyMOL  for a thousands of proteins. The problem is that even when I delete all object the RAM usage keeps increasing. I am using PyMOL 1.7 on ubuntu 14.04 (beta 2).
> 
> 
> my script looks like this.
> 
> import __main__
> __main__.pymol_argv = ['pymol','-qc']
> import pymol
> from pymol import cmd, stored
> import glob
> 
> pdb_files = glob.glob('*.pdb')
> for protein in pdb_files:
>         cmd.load(protein)
>         "some code here"
>         cmd.delete('all')
> 
> 
> I tried the following.
> 
> 1) removing the  "some code here" 
> 2) adding cmd.reinitialize()
> 3) adding cmd.set('suspend_undo', 1) (https://www.mail-archive.com/pym...@li.../msg11126.html)
> 
> Cheers and thanks in advance.

-- 
Thomas Holder
PyMOL Developer
Schrödinger, Inc.