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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">This is my first time contributing to an email chain like this, so apologies if I’ve done something wrong. My Gate simulations use a
 lot of ram (can be >500GB or so of RAM). My solution is to run Gate in ZRAM, a feature available on Linux that lets you ‘compress’ the RAM a program uses. The compression ration tends to be very good, 20GB down to 55MB or so,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Richard Maschmeyer</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> | PhD Research Student<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
Rm 417, <span style="background:white">School of Physics</span> | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006<br>
<b>T</b> 0433405112 | <b>E </b></span><b><u><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#006FC9"><a href="mailto:richard.maschmeyer@sydney.edu.au"><span style="color:#0563C1">richard.maschmeyer@sydney.edu.au</span></a></span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span style="color:black">Gate-users <gate-users-bounces@lists.opengatecollaboration.org> on behalf of Boersma David - MedAustron <david.boersma@medaustron.at><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, 14 August 2018 at 17:15<br>
<b>To: </b>"P. T." <ptpphysics@gmail.com>, Dania Consuegra <dconsuegra88@gmail.com>, gate-users <gate-users@lists.opengatecollaboration.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Gate-users] Gate ....<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hi Pat,</span><o:p></o:p></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Further suggestions:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">How many MHD files are you trying to generate?</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Is Gate the only RAM-heavy program running or are there others,
 like a heavily used web browser, or old Gate processes that were stopped but not terminated? The best way to check this is to check the memory *<b>before</b>* you run any Gate process.</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">If there is no proprietary device information in your macro
 file: could you please post it here in the list, so that we can try to reproduce the problem?</span><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The “time” in front of your Gate command (or any other command) is a simple utility to report the running time of
 the Gate process. The resources used by “time” itself are negligible.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">HTH,</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
 Gate-users [mailto:gate-users-bounces@lists.opengatecollaboration.org] <b>On Behalf Of
</b>P. T.<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 13, 2018 23:21<br>
<b>To:</b> Dania Consuegra <dconsuegra88@gmail.com>; gate-users <gate-users@lists.opengatecollaboration.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gate-users] Gate ....</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%">Dear Dania Consuegra,</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%">Thanks for your response.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%">I had commented the visualization of my macro and had used "Gate mymacro.mac" command to execution.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%">But, my memory and swap system was filled up completely (16GB RAM). </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%">Is there any differences between  "time Gate mymacro.mac" and " Gate mymacro.mac " commands?</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%">I think If MHD file can be stored in separate files in predefined time, the problem can be solved.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%">I would greatly appreciate further suggestions. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%">Best Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 7:04 PM, Dania Consuegra <</span><a href="mailto:dconsuegra88@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">dconsuegra88@gmail.com</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Hi Pat, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">I had a similar problem when I increase the number of primary events. I solved it by commenting the visualization of my macro and using for running Gate instead of Gate --qt mymacro.mac, <span style="background:white">time
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Good luck<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="color:#888888">Dania </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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