[Gate-users] RE: Save random flag versus ROOT output

[Simon Stute]

Hi,

2008/1/31, Maria Holstensson <Maria.Holstensson at icr.ac.uk>:
>
> Hi again,
>
> I tried to set these flags to 0 :
>
> /gate/output/root/setRootSinglesAdderFlag 0
> /gate/output/root/setRootSinglesBlurringFlag 0
> /gate/output/root/setRootSinglesSpblurringFlag 0
> /gate/output/root/setRootSinglesThresholderFlag 0
> /gate/output/root/setRootSinglesUpholderFlag 0
>
> first, but that didn't change much. However, I now tried to add these:
>
> /gate/output/root/setRootHitFlag 0
> /gate/output/root/setRootSinglesFlag 0
> /gate/output/root/setRootNtupleFlag 0
>
> And the size of the ROOT output is only a fraction of what it was
> before! Woohoo!


Great ! And if you are using a PET scan and making coincidences you can add
this line too :

/gate/output/root/setRootCoincidencesFlag 0

Cheers,
Simon

Thanks for your help!
> Maria
>
>
>
> >>> "Simon Stute" <gate.stute at gmail.com> 31/01/2008 13:45 >>>
> Hi,
>
> 2008/1/31, Maria Holstensson <Maria.Holstensson at icr.ac.uk>:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply! I tried setting all those flags to 0, but it
> > doesn't make that big a difference in the size of the ROOT output
> file.
>
>
> Are you sure to put all flags to 0 ? There is one flag per digitizer
> module,
> such as :
>
> #/gate/output/root/setRootSinglesAdderFlag 0
> #/gate/output/root/setRootSinglesReadoutFlag 0
> #/gate/output/root/setRootSinglesBlurringFlag 0
> #/gate/output/root/setRootSinglesThresholderFlag 0
>
> and more ... so if you defined such modules, I think this is the reason
> why
> you even get big root files.
>
> Hope it helps,
> Simon
>
> I have all the information I need in the ASCII output, and due to lack
> > of disk space I would like to exclude the ROOT output. But it
> doesn't
> > seem to be possible?
> > (If I at the same time want the random seeds)
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Maria
> >
> >
> >
> > >>> "Hannes Hofmann" <opengate at f00f.de> 31/01/2008 10:22 >>>
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Yes, at the moment my solution is the one you
> > > suggest - to include the ROOT output. But my simulations are run
> on
> > an
> > > external grid, and because the files are so big it takes a long
> time
> > to
> > > download the output files. Therefore I delete the ROOT files
> before
> > > downloading.
> >
> > You could also consider disabling some output for ROOT if you do not
> > need
> > them, e.g.
> > /gate/output/root/setRootHitFlag 0
> > /gate/output/root/setRootSinglesFlag 0
> > /gate/output/root/setRootNtupleFlag 0
> > etc.
> >
> > > Regarding the ASCII output, yes I have had a look at these in
> Excel
> > and
> > > they are truncated because the list is too long. But are they also
> > > truncated when analysing them with C-scripts such as
> > > benchmark_projections.c and benchmark_spectra.c? That wouldn't be
> > > ideal...
> >
> > No, why should they... Excel is just not made for such things.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Hannes
> >
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