Yes. Dale's always right. I'm sorry, I forgot about that.

Cutting the resolution of a map from 2 A to 3 A is enough to get 120 A of map 
to display on my 7 year old mac.  Rotating the map in a time frame I can stand, 
though, is a different issue.

Sue

 
On Dec 5, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Dale Tronrud wrote:

> 
>   You can't go to a larger grid without decreasing the resolution of
> the map first.  If you have a 1 A resolution map and sample it with a
> 2 A spacing you are not likely to get anything useful  (Your FFT
> program should complain mightily too).  If you cut the resolution to
> 4 A and sample at 2 you might have some hope.
> 
>   You can cut the resolution in Coot when you turn on expert mode.
> The sampling rate in Coot is a function of the resolution so you should
> automatically drop to a courser grid when you cut the resolution.
> 
> Dale Tronrud
> 
> On 12/05/2013 10:47 AM, Roberts, Sue A - (suer) wrote:
>> How about calculating the maps using a larger grid size?  You'll lose some 
>> detail, but if you're looking at 120 A slabs you're probably not looking at 
>> individual atoms/residues anyway.  I'm not sure if you can do that in coot 
>> or whether you need to calculate the map using ccp4 (or some other program) 
>> and read in the map.
>> 
>> Sue
>> 
>> On Dec 5, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Francis Reyes wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all
>>> 
>>> So I'm running into a case where I need to see maps for large radii (in 
>>> excess of 120A) and I'm thinking I need to move to bigger hardware than 
>>> this laptop. Essentially, I'm getting errors in malloc
>>> 
>>> coot-real(85522,0xa062e1a8) malloc: *** mach_vm_map(size=1140850688) failed 
>>> (error code=3)
>>> *** error: can't allocate region
>>> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>>> libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type 
>>> std::bad_alloc: std::bad_alloc
>>> /Applications/ccp4-6.4.0/bin/../coot.app/Contents/coot/bin/coot: line 251: 
>>> 85522 Abort trap: 6           $coot_real $@
>>> /Applications/ccp4-6.4.0/bin/../coot.app/Contents/coot/bin/coot: line 257: 
>>> /Applications/ccp4-6.4.0/bin/../coot.app/Contents/coot/bin/guile: No such 
>>> file or directory
>>> 
>>> What should I look for in a higher end machine? More system memory? Video 
>>> memory? All of the above?
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> F
>> 
>> Dr. Sue A. Roberts
>> Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
>> University of Arizona
>> 1041 E. Lowell St.,  Tucson, AZ 85721
>> Phone: 520 621 8171 or 520 621 4168
>> [email protected]
>> http://www.cbc.arizona.edu/xray or 
>> http://www.cbc.arizona.edu/facilities/x-ray_diffraction
>> 

Dr. Sue A. Roberts
Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Arizona
1041 E. Lowell St.,  Tucson, AZ 85721
Phone: 520 621 8171 or 520 621 4168
[email protected]
http://www.cbc.arizona.edu/xray or 
http://www.cbc.arizona.edu/facilities/x-ray_diffraction

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