Re: Chain or tree?

Is it possible at all to have one single Tree of 1 TeraByte? I thought the size of a Tree was limited to 2 Gbyte.

Elemer

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Rene Brun wrote:

Chiara,

Let me put this way ::)
-It is better to have one single Tree of 1 GByte than a TChain of 1000 files with a 1 Mbyte Tree.
-It is better to have one TChain with 1000 files with a 1GByte Tree in each than one single Tree of 1 TeraByte.

Larger the Tree, larger the internal tables to address the Tree baskets. Anyhow the overhead indiced by a TChain should be very small (opening/closing files),
TChain has many advantages in case you want to parallelize the processing. The individual files
can be on different nodes. You do not need a gigantic Tree on one single node that will generate
I/O bottlenecks, etc.

Rene Brun

Chiara Zampolli wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I was wondering whether there is a difference in performance (memory,
> mainly), in case one chains some trees written on files using a TChain, or
> building a TTree with CopyEntries. I have tried to see what happens using
> gSystem->GetMemInfo(), and also with "top", but it seems as if there's no
> difference.... Am I wrong? BTW, which is the "best" solution?
>
> Thanks in advance. Cheers,
> Chiara
>

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