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Hello dc1.1 watchers,<br>
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Another issue has emerged in examining the problems with hd_ana
hangs: running the same job twice does not produce the same files.
This seems like a real defect, too bad we didn't realize it until
now. It is essential for chasing down rare events (segfaults,
memleaks, bad events) that running a given job a second time leads
to the same outcome. I found this is not the case at the level of
the output rest files, so I followed it back. <br>
<ul>
<li>the bggen.hddm files are identical</li>
<li>the hdgeant.hddm files are identical</li>
<li>the hdgeant_smeared.hddm files are different</li>
<li>the rest.hddm files are different</li>
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<p>It seems that mcsmear is getting entropy from who-knows-where and
injecting it into the data stream. There are all sorts of
quick-and-dirty ways to do that (mangle the date/time, read from
/dev/random, etc.) none of them any good for real production.<br>
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<p>This is something to come back to after the run. For the present
purposes, if you were hoping to be able to do triage on jobs that
are failing in hd_ana during the first pass and study them later,
that is not going to work.<br>
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<p>-Richard J.<br>
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