root file basket size

From: William Love (love@bnl.gov)
Date: Tue Jan 04 2000 - 23:02:24 MET


   Root gurus

   I am using Root 2.23/09 and writing a TTree with three
 TClonesArrays, Tracks, Hits, and Pixels.  Recently I
 suffer unreproducable troubles with root output files.
 Though the  tree is well behaved while I am running
 the writing program, if I close the file and exit and then
 reopen the file I am often stuck with a segmentation
 fault in trying to look at the TTree, sometimes accompanied
 by a message about insufficient memory.
   Victor (Perevoztchikov) says he remembers a rootalk
 dialog about buffer (basket) size problems.  My events
 have usually about 16000 Hits, which means members
 would come near the 64 Kbytes basket size.  Does root
 maybe have a problem when variables just overflow a
 basket?  
   I would love to send an example script but I have had 
 runs of 200 events that work fine and runs of 5 events 
 that produced an unusable root file.  Its frustrating.
 Any information or advice would be appreciated.
                                   Thanks
                                    Bill Love



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