On Wed, 6 May 2009, Bala subramanian wrote:
Friends,
Is there any way to check the performance of chimera. I have been using chimera without any problems but now it is very slow, in opening even a small dna molecule and manipulating. Is there any way that i can check the root of the problem.
Thanks, Bala
So it was formerly fast on the same computer? This could happen on a Linux computer if you updated the kernel and forgot to reinstall the graphics driver (from ATI or NVidia, the open source 3D drivers still need work, but are improving). Another possibility, on all operatings sytems, is that there is a background process that is using a lot of CPU or memory, so chimera doesn't have the resources it used to. If you just want to check the graphics performance, then you can use the Benchmark tool in Tool / Utilities to guage the current performance. And then you can compare to the reported scores to see if your graphics performance is reasonable (the Show button in the Benchmark tool brings up the web page). - Greg