<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">hello, Dear Gate Users,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Recently I have some trouble with the GATE simulation and I would like to know your </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">experience and comments.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">My problem is when I run the GATE for a little long time (may be from 10 hours to</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">several days), the program might crash and stop somewhere. This does not happen every</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">time, some time I can let it run for 1 week without crash, but some time it crashes.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">When I was using the old version of GATE (1.0 or 2.2), I remember usually the crashes</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">were caused by the overlap between different solid or geometries. But now with GATE 3.0, Geant4.8.0.p01, CLHEP 2.0.2.2, </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">even very simple geometry and after checking the scripts carefully many times , it may still has this problem.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">According to my experience, most of the time if the program crash, it happens in the GateCoincidenceSorter.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">And if I use the same random file run the program again, it will crash at exactly the same place.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Do you people have encountered the same situation before? Do you have any idea about</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">how it happens? The error in the scripts or some bugs of Geant4? And how can you avoid this?</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">If it's possible, please share me with your opinion. Thank you.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Yuxuan</font>
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