<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I've never experienced that.. they should always be consistent and if they're not this means that the job crashed while was writing the restart file..<DIV>In this case I highly suggest don't use the fault restart file but use instead the backup of the previous restart file..</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>teo<BR><DIV><DIV>On 4 May 2007, at 19:59, lmliu wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Hi Teo,<BR><BR>Great. <BR>Another thing is that when metadynamics is crashed, not stopped by itself, sometime it can not continue to run using PROJECT-1.restart. The reason is that the NHILLS_START_VAL and the number of '&SPAWNED_HILLS_POS' are different. When I meet such situation, i change the NHILLS_START_VAL. Is there any way to avoid such things? <BR><BR>thanks!<BR>Limin<BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote"><BR></SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><BR>Thanks!<BR>the bug has been fixed... <BR><BR>teo<BR>On 4 May 2007, at 18:52, <A href="mailto:lml...@gmail.com">lml...@gmail.com</A> wrote:<BR><BR>><BR>><BR>> Teo fixed a main bug of metadynamic part. There is another error. The<BR>> hills should be printed each NT_HILLS, but it prints each step in <BR>> PROJECT-HILLS.metadynLog at present.<BR>><BR>><BR>> ><BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR> <BR> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>