Known external issues¶
These are known problems which are completely unrelated to the genie-reader code, but can be encountered during the simulation:
grwght1p
can only process more than 1 event¶
grwght1p
is a GENIE Reweight application, responsible for calculating systematics weights. grwght1p
can only process >1 events and will crash if GENIE Generator file with only one event os provided as input. To prevent this problem, if you are planning to calculate systematic weights in genie-reader simulation, you shoud always generate files with at least two events. This issue does not affect geneation without systematics weights, as gevgen
can in fact produce files with just one event.
Limited file size (number of events)¶
It was found that the maximum file size (number of events per file) when running genie-reader
simulation in IceCube CVMFS environment has to be reduced compared to the previous oscNext simulations which used GENIE-IceTry
. Going over the maximum size leads to the segmentation violation.
As an example, while files of 300000 events were used before, for genie-reader
simulation with the same settings the size had to be scaled down to 100000 events in order to avoid the error.
In genie-reader
requested number of events is number of neutrino interactions, while in GENIE-IceTry
it was number of flux neutrinos, so actual number of events stored in the file (neutrino interactions) was smaller.
GENIE-IceTray
also used different types of objects to store event information, which might be the cause for the different maximum number of events.