[Dock-fans] About "Error: memory exhausted!" problem

[Scott Brozell]

Hi,

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, li bai wrote:

> When I input command:
> dock6 -i rigid.in , some err be found as below:
>
> Initializing Library File Routines...
> Initializing Orienting Routines...
> Initializing Grid Score Routines...
>  Reading the energy grid from grid.nrg
> Error: memory exhausted!
>   If this occurs during grid reading then a likely cause
>   is a grid that is too large.  Some machines have a very
>   restrictive policy on allocating available resources:
>   For Unix platforms increase the datasize, stacksize, and
>   memoryuse using the limit, ulimit, or unlimit commands;
>   use trial and error to find the apt one of these commands.
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
>   what():  St9bad_alloc
>
> who can help me sovle this problem?

You can help yourself solve this problem.
In particular, did you try the recovery methods indicated in the 
error message ???!!?

http://blur.compbio.ucsf.edu/pipermail/dock-fans/2008-March/001468.html

Scott