[PyMOL] Memory not released after load and delete of structure

2012-12-20 Thread Martin Hediger
Dear PyMOL users In a directory are PDB files of combined size equal to around 3MB. When I load all files into PyMOL, I observe that the required RAM of PyMOL (MacOS X 10.6) increases by roughly this amount. When I delete all objects, the RAM requirement remains the same and when I then reload

Re: [PyMOL] Memory not released after load and delete of structure

2012-12-20 Thread Jason Vertrees
Hi Martin, Which version of PyMOL are you using? Cheers, -- Jason On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Martin Hediger ma@bluewin.ch wrote: Dear PyMOL users In a directory are PDB files of combined size equal to around 3MB. When I load all files into PyMOL, I observe that the required RAM of

Re: [PyMOL] Memory not released after load and delete of structure

2012-12-20 Thread Martin Hediger
Hi Jason, I'm using PyMOL 1.3. Best regards Martin On 20.12.12 15:53, Jason Vertrees wrote: Hi Martin, Which version of PyMOL are you using? Cheers, -- Jason On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Martin Hediger ma@bluewin.ch wrote: Dear PyMOL users In a directory are PDB files of

Re: [PyMOL] Memory not released after load and delete of structure

2012-12-20 Thread Jason Vertrees
Martin, That sounds like a memory leak in v1.3. Can you try a newer version of PyMOL and let us know if it still happens? We've fixed lots of bugs since v1.3. Also, is your script simply iterating over structures and deleting them when done? You sure you're not missing a cleanup step somewhere?

Re: [PyMOL] Memory not released after load and delete of structure

2012-12-20 Thread Martin Hediger
I'll give it a try with the newer versions. I just checked, and I believe I'm doing some cleaning up. Sure, I posted the scripte on this pastebin: http://pastebin.com/mC6Rs6wk Sorry for the layout (all pretty in development). In production, the script is invoked from the frag function. Martin