Again: maximum number of events...

Mon Mar 5 09:36:14 CET 2001

Dear fellow McStas user,

the issue of being able to use more than 2e+09 neutrons in one run doesn't
seem to be resolved yet. If you remember the message Kristian sent out a
while ago he said that larger numbers should be possible.
My first test on a SuSe Linux machine with 3e+09 didn't come to an end
although I wasn't sure I was waited long enough. Therefore I tried 3e+09 on
an ALPHA workstation and it worked just fine.
Now I tried 4e+09 on a PC (REDHAT Linux) and it's still running after
3000 minutes. The "same" job with 4e+07 needs less than 15 minutes to complete!
Is anybody willing to run a job with 4e+09 neutrons on any system other
than an ALPHA workstation?
Does anybody have additional insight or can drop me a hint what I might be
doing wrong? Any comment is really appreciated ...

Cheers

Uli

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