Using edmEventSize

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Goal of the page

This page documents the use a tool to measure the average size per event of each edm::Product present in an output file of a cmsRun job

Contacts

• Based on the original tool and algorithm by Luca Lista
• Author: Vincenzo Innocente
• Current Maintainer: Vincenzo Innocente

Introduction

edmEventSize is an executable command line tool that measures the compressed and plain size of each branch in a root tree. Given the one-to-one mapping between edm::Products and root-branches it is a rather trivial task to compute the per-event average size (compressed and plain) of each edm::Product. The tool reports these sizes either on the screen or save them in a file that can be then post-processed to produce a graphics output.

Usage

edmEventSize is built with each CMSSW release and therefore available in the CMSSW running environment. The most common use its to invoke it from the command line either as edmEventSize -v file.root or as edmEventSize -o file.txt file.root. In the first case it will dump the content of file.root to the screen (mixed with various error messages from root), in the second to the file.txt file.

file.txt can then be post-processed using the PerfReport tool to provide a more user friendly output in form of a web-page.

Options exist to sort the output in alphabetic order, format the product name in a more easy to read form and to output the result as root histograms in a root file or as plot in pgn format

The tool can actually be used to measure the size of any root tree (even if in case of an arbitrary tree some of the option may make no sense): just invoke it as edmEventSize -v --tree-name nameOfTheTree file.root

Documentation

Online help can be obtained with the command edmEventSize --help.

Examples

Review status

Reviewer/Editor and Date (copy from screen)	Comments
KatiLassilaPerini - 15 Mar 2007	created template page

Responsible: VincenzoInnocente
Last reviewed by: Most recent reviewer