AMBER Archive (2006)

Subject: Re: AMBER: mm_pbsa segmentation faults

From: Ray Luo (rluo_at_uci.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2006 - 20:17:54 CDT


Please send me a tar ball of your files so I can take a look.

Best,
Ray

Thomas Steinbrecher wrote:

> Dear Amber users,
>
> to update my mail from last Friday, the problem still persists, but it
> is not pbsa that segfaults but the mm_pbsa script itself. The crash
> occurs seemingly at random, at the 6th to 8th snapshot (the structures
> look ok in vmd) and the last line in the logfile is either
>
> Calc MM/GB/SAS
> or
> Generate PDB
>
> followed by
>
> [1]+ Segmentation fault mm_pbsa.pl mm_pbsa.in >mm_pbsa.log
>
> This behaviour seems strange to me and I am unsure on how to proceed
> since I don't even know what goes wrong. Can anyone give me a hint on
> what to check next (Bugfixes 2 and 9 are applied)?
>
> I can send a tarball of my crd and input files if anyone is interested.
>
> Thank in advance for any help,
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Thomas
>
>> I am trying to perform an MM-PBSA analysis on a protein ligand
>> complex, but I keep seeing pbsa segmentation faults without any
>> informative error message (neither in pbsa.out nor in the output of
>> mm-pbsa.pl).
>>
>> I have applied amber9 bugfix 2. My system is a dualCPU RedHat-like
>> Linux machine, amber was compiled with the intel fortran compilers.
>>
>> The script fails on seemingly random snapshots, that is, a snapshot
>> that caused a segfault might just run fine on a restart. The
>> segfaults occur on average every 10-20 snapshots.
>>
>> My system has ca. 6000 atoms and consists of a protein and a
>> drug-like ligand. I noticed that pbsa uses a lot of memory (>400Mb,
>> 80% of my total RAM) and I'm not sure if that is to be expected. I
>> run pbsa with the default parameters.
>>
>> While I can get around the problem by renaming the snapshot files and
>> restarting mm-pbsa after every crash, this is tedious and I wonder
>> what goes wrong.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be appreciated,
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>> Dr. Thomas Steinbrecher
>> The Scripps Research Institute
>> 10550 N. Torrey Pines Rd.
>> San Diego CA 92037, USA
>>
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