Hello Jimmy, thank you very much for your quick reply! You're completely 
correct about the fragment bin value, when I ran Comet (thank you for name 
guidance) using the LTQ settings it worked fine! When I ran it on the high 
resolution settings with task mamager on, I saw that I was getting the 
calloc error at about 2Gb of memory. I'm running Comet on a win7-64bit 
machine with 24Gb of memory and the program is called comet-win32, please 
could you tell me whether it would be possible to recompile Comet for win64 
and perform larger searches? Sorry if this is a naive question, i'm very 
much a beginner when it comes to code.
thank you again,
Philip    

On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 19:55:58 UTC, Jimmy Eng wrote:
>
> Philip,
>
> I'm guessing you're specifying a small "fragment_bin_tol" value for the 
> high-res ms/ms spectra.  This causes Comet (not all capitalized) to use a 
> ton of memory and you're just running out of memory.
>
> On the following UWPR SEQUEST page, there's a table correlating a set of 
> fragment_bin_tol settings vs. # input spectra vs. memory used:
>
> https://proteomicsresource.washington.edu/sequest_release/release_201201.php
> These numbers apply to Comet as well.
>
> To address the problem, run smaller searches i.e. run Comet on a subset of 
> your input spectra.  You can do this either with the "scan_range" parameter 
> in the params file or simply invoke the searches such as
>    comet yourfile.mzXML:1-3000
>    comet yourfile.mzXML:3001-6000
>    comet yourfile.mzXML:6001-9000
>
> Your going to get multiple outputs if you do this which will need to be 
> handled.  Splitting searches and managing results is something that some 
> script should do for you; some day I'll throw some simple windows and linux 
> example scripts on the Comet website for users.
>
> Hopefully we'll have a workaround to address the memory use for these 
> small fragment_bin_tol values in the semi-near future (thanks to Mike 
> Hoopmann here who has implemented sparse matrix support in the code which 
> I'm actively working with now).
>
> - Jimmy
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Philip Brownridge 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> Hello all, please can I apologise if I have posted this in the wrong 
>> group, but I can't find a COMET group and there are other COMET postings 
>> here so I hope someone can help me! I'm trying to use some QExactive data 
>> with Comet and I keep getting either a calloc error message or a message 
>> saying there is no search to perform. I can get COMET searches to work on 
>> LTQ Orbitrap data but not QExactive. I have been using Proteowizard to 
>> convert the RAW files to mzML. I'm using the default params file with high 
>> resolution fragment ion parameters. 
>> Please if anybody is using COMET with QExactive data please could they 
>> let me know where i'm wrong!
>> thanks in advance,
>> Philip
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