[gmx-users] Laptop switches off when running GROMACS

[Mark Abraham]

David van der Spoel wrote:
> Sergio de Alencar wrote:
>>
>> Hello there folks,
>>
>> I have been trying to run GROMACS on my laptop, but around 15-20 mins 
>> after mdrun starts to run the laptop suddenly switches off. I run it 
>> on Red Hat Linux. I'd like to know if anyone has had the same problem 
>> and what I could do to solve it.
> Maybe it is overheating :(
> 
> Check the log files like /var/log/messages

Or it's just set up to sleep after that length of time. Try doing it 
without running GROMACS :-)

Mark