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

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

Hi Osvaldo,

the memory leak has been fixed in SVN rev 4074.

Cheers,
  Thomas

On 04 Apr 2014, at 15:54, Thomas Holder <tho...@sc...> wrote:

> 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.

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Thomas Holder
PyMOL Developer
Schrödinger, Inc.