Hi Kas, I'm sorry for the trouble! I don't know the answer to the instability problem...but I can help on the job itself. For a big job like this, scripts can be helpful. You can also run from the GUI and choose to run "detached" (You may have to specify "edit parameters and run/ run detached to get this option). Also if you are getting partly done with your composite omit map, you can do it in pieces (specifying which omit region to run in each job) and put them all together at the end like this: Combine composite OMIT files from a set of parallel runs on different computers If you run a composite OMIT job but it fails at the last step of combining files, or if you run all the individual omit boxes on different machines, you can still combine them all into one single composite omit map. You can do this by copying all the individual mtz files with map coefficients for omit regions to a single directory. Here is a script you can edit and use to combine omit maps representing different omit regions into one. NOTE: you need to ensure that the OMIT regions are defined the same in the runs where you got your overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_1 etc files and this run. You ensure that with the n_xyz command that sets the grid. You can copy this from one of your resolve log files created when you ran your omit (i.e., AutoBuild_run_1_/TEMP0/AutoBuild_run_1_/TEMP0/resolve.log will have a line like "nu nv nw: 32 32 32 " and you copy those numbers). ------------------------------------ #!/bin/csh -f # COMBINE OMIT SCRIPT phenix.resolve << EOD hklin exptl_fobs_phases_freeR_flags.mtz labin FP=FP SIGFP=SIGFP n_xyz 32 32 32 # YOU MUST SET THIS BASED ON THE nu nv nw in a resolve log file. solvent_content 0.85 no_build ha_file NONE combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_1 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_2 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_3 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_4 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_5 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_6 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_7 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_8 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_9 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_10 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_11 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_12 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_13 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_14 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_15 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_16 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_17 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_18 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_19 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_20 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_21 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_22 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_23 combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_24 omit EOD # END OF COMBINE OMIT SCRIPT All the best, Tom T On Aug 25, 2011, at 9:18 AM, Kenneth A. Satyshur wrote:

We are running phenix (743) on a RHEL5 dual quad, multithread, making a composite omit map pf a very large structure (750 AA) and the system keeps getting locked up. Have anyone else seen this type of problem? Does multiprocessing work well on RHEL or just FC versions? We needed to install the FC8 version (/phenix-1.7.1-743/build/intel-linux-2.6-x86_64) to get it to work. So maybe we are using the wrong version? Shoiuld I recompile it for our system? Why is the gui always open when we are running long jobs (many days)? We need to put this stuff in the background and log out so someone else can run. Should scripts be used instead of the gui?

Great program but too unstable.

kas

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