<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Mark, this may prevent the job crashes you're experiencing with the data challenge(s). I was having the same problem and this fixed it for me. <div><br></div><div><div><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:Hall-D.SVN.Repository@jlab.org">Hall-D.SVN.Repository@jlab.org</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">August 4, 2012 5:01:37 PM EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:davidl@jlab.org">davidl@jlab.org</a>, <a href="mailto:brash@pcs.cnu.edu">brash@pcs.cnu.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:wolin@jlab.org">wolin@jlab.org</a>, <a href="mailto:zisis@uregina.ca">zisis@uregina.ca</a>, <a href="mailto:mashephe@indiana.edu">mashephe@indiana.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:remitche@indiana.edu">remitche@indiana.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:zihlmann@jlab.org">zihlmann@jlab.org</a>, <a href="mailto:somov@jlab.org">somov@jlab.org</a>, <a href="mailto:staylor@jlab.org">staylor@jlab.org</a>, <a href="mailto:kmoriya@indiana.edu">kmoriya@indiana.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:pmatt@jlab.org">pmatt@jlab.org</a>, <a href="mailto:leckey@jlab.org">leckey@jlab.org</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>r9428 - trunk/sim-recon/src/libraries/TRACKING</b><br></span></div><br><div>Author: pmatt<br>Date: 2012-08-04 17:01:35 -0400 (Sat, 04 Aug 2012)<br>New Revision: 9428<br><br>Modified:<br> trunk/sim-recon/src/libraries/TRACKING/DTrackCandidate_factory.cc<br> trunk/sim-recon/src/libraries/TRACKING/DTrackCandidate_factory.h<br>Log:<br>Added "MAX_NUM_TRACK_CANDIDATES" to the DTrackCandidate factory. <br>If more than this many track candidates (default=20, command-line configurable) are found, delete all of them.<br>This prevents crashes from pseudo-instantaneous memory spikes due to swimming too many tracks (one for each PID, at both time- & wire-based stages). <br><br><br></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Although it's not ideal to just toss out events, 20+ track events are basically unusable for physics anyway. Also, hopefully this won't be as much of a problem once I fix the low-momentum track spiral reconstruction. If you want, you can set the parameter to -1 for there to be no maximum cutoff. </div><div><br></div><div>Note that now 20+ track events and 0 track events are now indistinguishable. We're working on a way to distinguish them, but it's not ready yet...</div><div><br></div><div> - Paul</div><div><br></div></body></html>