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document large restart file warning

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Axel Kohlmeyer
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@ -561,6 +561,14 @@ generated with a :doc:`write_data command <write_data>`. The third
window is a :ref:`Snapshot Image Viewer <snapshot_viewer>` containing a
visualization of the system in the restart.
If the restart file is larger than 250 MBytes, a dialog will ask
for confirmation before continuing, since large restart files
may require large amounts of RAM since the entire system must
be read into RAM. Thus restart file for large simulations that
have been run on an HPC cluster may overload a laptop or local
workstation. The ``Show Details...`` button will display a rough
estimate of the additional memory required.
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