Hi Rafo, > Are you running only recon, or you have DQMs as well. > In June, this summer, before starting the pass1 of 2016, we noticed that > dropping DQMs, will allow to have > Memory request to go down to 2.4Gb with a heap size = 1.4G (-Xmx1400m). > > If you have DQMs as well, could you try tr without DQM, otherwise if it is > only recon, them yes it seems to require too much of memory. right, in fact I am also producing ntuples. But in the script this is done as last separated step: it looks like the recon is completed, while the failure occurs while I am running the python procedure to get the input I need for millepede. So ok, let me try without ntuple production... even if I have some doubts it can behave differently. Thanks, cheers Alessandra > > Rafo > > > On 11/06/2017 07:10 AM, Alessandra Filippi wrote: >> Hi all, >> I noticed that with the latest hps-java versions many of my jobs requiring >> reconstruction + info extraction for alignment of 2015 data fail due to LSF >> memory usage limit (on SLAC batch system). >> >> Since the alignment part did not change, I suppose some more memory usage >> is required for the reconstruction, when compared to previous versions >> (this is strange, though, since these failures only happen for 2015 data, >> not for 2016 runs as far as I can see). >> Did something change in the latest versions (4.0 of hps-java) which could >> be the source of this memory increase? >> Which memory limit would you suggest to modify the 4 GB default to get job >> come to completion? (I could try random values but if you have a wiser >> estimation on the momery increase it could be more useful). >> Thanks, cheers >> Alessandra >> >> ######################################################################## >> Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list >> >> To unsubscribe from the HPS-SOFTWARE list, click the following link: >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__listserv.slac.stanford.edu_cgi-2Dbin_wa-3FSUBED1-3DHPS-2DSOFTWARE-26A-3D1&d=DwIBAg&c=lz9TcOasaINaaC3U7FbMev2lsutwpI4--09aP8Lu18s&r=0HDJrGO9TZQTE97J9Abt2A&m=Qlq5ypjjXnoktaAFX469rRPmo3_ewGl89N0SMdUp9Eo&s=HQ9HxOf7Kjty6e9n0_CzVtpYLuCMqw6zz5L_8zL3cOs&e= > > ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the HPS-SOFTWARE list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=HPS-SOFTWARE&A=1