Fix sidemax test in test_packing.py
by using a more reasonable length
#1256
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PR Summary:
Packmol had a bug fix recently and a new release on conda-forge about a week ago. I think this was changing the behavior of the initial guess (using sidemax). The
test_sidemax
tests are failing as a result. From what I can tell, the issue stems from using too large of a box size combined with large sidemax values (2000 nanometers), which is causing the packing calls in the test to use a ton of memory. It was up to 28GB when running the same test in a notebookPR Checklist