Re: [modeller_usage] Re: when does MODELLER hang

[Modeller Caretaker <>]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 02:20:14PM +0100, Antoine Leimgruber wrote:
> I recall from you numerous emails that you are running under windows. I 
> did it once. From my experience, this is the time equation I get when 
> running on various platforms:
> 
> 2.2Ghz linux athlon = 1
> powermac G5 = 1.3
> windows2000 700Ghz Athlon = 10++

That sounds about right. The 6v2 Windows binary is not particularly
optimized, and will run more slowly than the Linux binary on an
equivalent system. I have reproduced the OP's problem - Modeller does
not 'hang' at the point of reading the restraints, but simply takes a
long time. The job completes in 2 minutes on a 3GHz Xeon running Linux,
but in 20 minutes on a 1.6GHz Windows box. We are aware of this problem,
and expect there to be little or no difference in runtime between
equivalent Linux and Windows machines with the next Modeller release.

> I recall that you said it was working on a linux PC, but that you were 
> not very fond of using linux. Maybe you will loose less time learning 
> this very usefull OS rather than fighting against your windows PC ? ;-)
> I strongly advise you to switch to linux.

While we expect to continue to provide Windows and Mac Modeller builds,
the majority of development here is conducted on Unix machines, and thus
they are likely to always be better supported.

	Ben Webb, Modeller Caretaker
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