Hi all,
I have ~280 file.root that I have to merge. Each file contain different things, but the most important is a directory with ~62000 TH1F. Sometimes it fails and I read in the .log:
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#6 0x0000000000403b12 in MergeRootfile(TDirectory*, TList*) ()
#7 0x00000000004032cf in MergeRootfile(TDirectory*, TList*) ()
#8 0x0000000000404d1b in main ()
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc’
what(): std::bad_alloc
What I do (not interactively) is:
hadd -f final.root list_of_280files.root
but I think that, depending on what kind of other jobs are running on the machine, I have not enough memory for the temporary copy the histograms that is made during the hadd.
It’s true? There is a solution?
For instance: dividing the list of the file to hadd in two parts and merging them separately, and than merge the two outputs, could be helpful?
Thank you,
Luca