[gmx-users] why i cannot the long time md run

[David]

On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 18:38, xiaoyi li wrote:
> To whom it concerns,
> 
> I am trying to run a long time MD simulation on a complicated system
> composed of two axt molecules and two proteins with Gromacs. I set 
> 
> nstxtcout=100
> nstxout=5000
> nstvout=5000
> dt=0.002
> nsteps=500000
> nstlog=200
> 
> in the .mdp file to get the 1000ps result. But the real output result is
> only 110s. The size of the output file are:
> 
> .log  2147483647
> .trr   13120992
> .tpr    6588032
> 
> Is it because of the size limit of the output file? what's the size
> limit of all the output files? what should i do then? If not, why I
> cannot get the right long time run?

Probably the 2gb is the problem. Have you checked the log file whether
these settings have made it into the tpr file (and hence in the md.log
file)?

> 
> Thanks in advance,
-- 
Groeten, David.
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