Dear Rooters,
I'm facing some memory problem due to some really _big_ events which
came out from our simulation.
After a quite large production we realized that some of this simulated
events required ~1Gb of RAM just to be read from file.
It turns out, from the event size returned by TTree::GetEntry() that
only half of the memory is taken by the event.
I suppose the rest is used in the reading operations (baskets?
buffers?). I've also seen that the memory is released when the tree is
deleted (and the file is closed?).
Now is too late to re-organize the branches to reduce the memory usage,
so I was wondering if there is a way to know
in advance which is the size of the next event to be read to decide
whether to skip it or not.
Or if there is a way to force the tree to drop some meory after the
event has been read. I tried with TTree::DropBaskets(), but it crashes
during the next call of TTree::GetEntry().
Thanks in advance for any suggestion,
Alessandro
--Received on Thu Mar 30 2006 - 11:31:20 MEST
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Alessandro Thea Ph.D. Student Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita' di Genova and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, I-16146, Genova, Italia. Tel : +39 010 3536468 E-Mail: Alessandro.Thea_at_ge.infn.it Cell: +39 349 2724919
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