Avogadro consuming a lot memory for a long time

[ghutchis]

Load a CML file.

Add for example 8 Carbon atoms to a Oxygen atom (I know in real life this doesn't work...). Now optimzie the geometry. Works.

Now add the hydrogens with the menu-option and optimize again. After about 2 minutes with 60-80% consumption of my memory I killed Avogadro.

Reported by: @cniehaus

[ghutchis]

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On IRC Donald told me that OpenBabel simply takes ages in this case... Therefor this is a variation of bug 717807 I guess.

Original comment by: @cniehaus

[ghutchis]

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I agree -- this is a duplicate. It's not a bug in the geometry optimization. It's just that the code takes ages to optimize and Avogadro doesn't provide feedback to what's happening.

I'm marking this closed as an duplicate interface bug.

Original comment by: @ghutchis