LHCb Core Software Meeting

Date and Location

2015-05-13
10:30 - 11:40
CERN (2-R-030)

Attendees

Ben Couturier, Gloria Corti, Illya Shapoval, Joel Closier, Liang Sun, Marco Cattaneo, Marco Clemencic (minutes), Markus Frank, Nathalie Rauschmayr, Stefan Roiser

Subjects

News

• LCG 76root6 being built (equivalent to 75root6, but with IPV6 enabled in Python)
• Joel: we can now decommission physical build machines
• Next ITUM will be at the beginning of June

Memory Profiling Results (Nathalie)

• to be tested on more recent version of the stack (a few optimizations are already available)
• we need to have the generation of dumps integrated with PRConfig

Round Table

Marco Cl.

• Few minor things to fix, then I can tag and build Gaudi.

Ben

• About to release LbScripts
• Testing SOA containers with Manuel

Markus

• It would be worth investigating the possibility of exiting from the application without calling the destructors, because that recalls pages from the swap (as showed by Nathalie), and causes "unsharing" of pages when relying on copy-on-write.

Gloria

• Summer Student working on FSR counters for the generators

Liang

• Fixed a problem in the processing of CondDB release notes (related to )

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-- MarcoClemencic - 2015-05-13