[Rivet] Jimmy stops with CODE 300

Holger Schulz holger.schulz at physik.hu-berlin.de
Wed May 26 16:46:59 BST 2010


On 26/05/10 16:04, Jonathan Butterworth wrote:
> This looks like the same problem Frank saw which I don't think we 
> managed to resolve.
>
> What is happening is that HERWIG is thinking there have been too many 
> warnings (via a test on the MAXER parameter) and is stopping the run. 
> This is really annoying behaviour which is usually fixed by setting 
> MAXER to a very large number (or better, to something like 20% of the 
> number of events requested).
>
> However, from a brief inspection of the code, it looked like AGILe was 
> in fact doing this properly, so I could not understand why we saw the 
> problem still.
>
> I don't currently haMAXHEPve a working set up so can't test this. But: 
> are you using a local herwig release or afs/genser? In either case, 
> are you sure the common block size is consistent (MAXHEP)?
Hi Jon,

I am using herwig from 
/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators/herwig/6510/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt, 
while my installations of jimmy is a local one.
How can I check the size of MAXHEP?

Cheers,
Holger


>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>
> Holger Schulz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to run Jimmy 4.31 with Herwig6.5 through AGILE head,
>> process code 1500 (QCD), varying PTMIN and the proton/antiproton radius.
>> Furthermore, I am using the LO* pdf. The generator runs more or less
>> smoothly, some warnings are printed but after about 5000 events,
>> the event generation stops with the following goodbye-message:
>>
>>     HWWARN CALLED FROM SUBPROGRAM HWUFNE: CODE = 300
>>      EVENT KILLED: DUMP FOLLOWS.  RUN ENDS GRACEFULLY
>>
>>
>> This is my command line:
>>
>>     agile-runmc HerwigJimmy:6510 --beams TVT:1800  -P
>>     jimmy.cmd.CDF_2001_S4751469_1800_PTMIN_10 -p "PTMIN=10" -n 1000000
>>     -o /tmp/hepmc.fifo & rivet /tmp/hepmc.fifo -a CDF_2001_S4751469 -H
>>     out.aida
>>
>> The parameter file jimmy.cmd.CDF... is attached.
>>
>> Is there something wrong with the parameter values or do you have an 
>> idea
>> where else I could have messed up?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Holger
>>
>>
>>
>>
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