[Gate-users] question about the long term running of the Gate

[yuxuan.zhang at di.mdacc.tmc.edu]

hello, Dear Gate Users,

Recently I have some trouble with the GATE simulation and I would like to 
know your 
experience and comments.

My problem is when I run the GATE for a little long time (may be from 10 
hours to
several days), the program might crash and stop somewhere. This does not 
happen every
time, some time I can let it run for 1 week without crash, but some time 
it crashes.

When I was using the old version of GATE (1.0 or 2.2), I remember usually 
the crashes
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, 
even very simple geometry and after checking the scripts carefully many 
times , it may still has this problem.

According to my experience, most of the time if the program crash, it 
happens in the GateCoincidenceSorter.
And if I use the same random file run the program again, it will crash at 
exactly the same place.

Do you people have encountered the same situation before? Do you have any 
idea about
how it happens? The error in the scripts or some bugs of Geant4? And how 
can you avoid this?
If it's possible, please share me with your opinion. Thank you.


Yuxuan





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