File size hasn't been something I've been paying much attention to of late and there are a number of things with how the data sets are saved that can be tweaked to attempt to shrink it (and some things that ended up disabled after tracking down a bug in the HDF5 libraries). I'll take a look shortly (if you could send me one of your files that could be helpful too). --Daniel

On Jul 5, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Riccardo Pellarin wrote:

> Hi all. I'm using the rmf file support to write coordinates of my > optimization run. > I set up the rmf file in this way > > rh = RMF.create_rmf_file("traj.rmf") > IMP.rmf.add_hierarchy(rh, self.prot) > > and then at each step "i" I save the coordinates in the file > > for i in range(10000): > mc.optimize(100) > IMP.rmf.save_frame(rh,i) > > Now, the resulting rmf file for my system has a size of about 100 KB per frame, > which is only slightly lower than the 120 KB per frame of an appended pdb > file. (My optimization run saves 100000 frames, which makes about 10 GB > for the rmf). How is it possible that a binary file is that bulky? > For comparison, a dcd trajectory frame only occupies 18 KB, for the > same system. > > Am I doing something wrong? > > cheers > > Riccardo > _______________________________________________ > IMP-dev mailing list > IMP-dev@salilab.org > https://salilab.org/mailman/listinfo/imp-dev