When in trim mode,2460 occupy the same amount of memory

[christioanchauvin]

than in normal mode.This offsets much of the interest of that mode,causing it to slow down.
Is this normal ?

[Bruno Kestemont]

Indeed I don't see the interest of the trim tool if it doesn't save memory and/or CPU use.

[Bletchley Park]

The trim tool was designed to speed up processing, not to save memory.

[christioanchauvin]

What is the use of saving processing power if the limiting factor is memory
access and if it takes finally the same time ?saving memort is not a goal,
final exec time is

[Bletchley Park]

I withdraw my statement on memory and apologize to everyone who commented on the memorysize.

4.3 Gigabytes PER CLIENT is an amazing waste of memory to house 800 residues. FIVE megabytes per residue… How did you structure your memory management ?!

Can this possibly be a bug ? @rmoretti

To my knowledge a trimmed solution has always used up as much as an untrimmed solution. But clients have not been THIS bloated.

[Bruno Kestemont]

Re-opening a client with no action used 5 Gb. It seems to be abnormal.

[apetrides]

Hey folks, I'd like to take a moment to thank you all for your feedback and quickly clarify a few things about Puzzle 2460, Density, and the Trim Tool.

As BletchleyPark correctly pointed out in this thread, the goal of the Trim Tool is indeed to optimize CPU usage and not memory usage and it absolutely does improve CPU usage on larger puzzles such as puzzle 2460. If this difference has not been noticeable to you thus far I'd recommend starting off by trimming smaller regions. On my machine working with 100-200 residues showed a significant increase in performance over the full protein.

On a separate but related note, we are looking into recent reports of excessive memory usage by the game client and I suspect it has more to do with density than the amount of residues in this particular puzzle (and perhaps in certain cases solution saving over time). Density has the potential to take up a LOT of space in memory as it contains a lot of high resolution information about 3D space. The good news is that there are several things we can and will do to immediately improve this moving forward. Hope this helps, and happy folding!