Dear Ben,
The patch fixed the problem. CPU's Memory usage is stable, ~14.3 MB per core. Great!
Thank you very much!
Xiao-Ping
On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 10:54 -0800, Modeller Caretaker wrote: > On 2/21/12 9:39 AM, Modeller Caretaker wrote: > > On 02/21/2012 08:55 AM, Xiao-Ping Zhang wrote: > >> When I was refining loops for a model in parallel, I asked modeller to > >> generate 9999 models. But modeller stopped at 1245 with the following > >> error. The computer has six cores, modeller uses four of them. The other > >> two cores were free. > > ... > >> ValueError: Ran out of slaves to run tasks > > > > This means exactly what it says: all of the slaves died, so it had > > nowhere to run the loop model building tasks. Each slave generates its > > own output file (look for files ending in .slave). Look in there to see > > what the problem was with each slave. > > To conclude: it turned out that each slave was running out of memory. > This is actually caused by a memory leak in Modeller that only affects > parallel loopmodel runs. A patch is available to fix the problem at > http://salilab.org/modeller/wiki/Patches > > Ben Webb, Modeller Caretaker