Idea #22452
Tons of messages for background simulations.
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Description
The drift messages from LArVoxelReadout completely saturate the output of radiological simulations due to charge regularly being made outside the active volume.
Can we make this message a debug message so it doesn't spam the logs?
Example:
%MSG-w LArVoxelReadout: LArG4:largeant@BeginModule 25-Apr-2019 21:06:47 CDT run: 20000061 subRun: 0 event: 1 unable to drift electrons from point (136.377,-513.393,231.755) with exception ---- Geometry BEGIN Can't find nearest wire for position (3.00155,-513.478,231.628) in plane C:0 T:5 P:2 approx wire number # 0 (capped from -2) ---- Geometry END
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#1 Updated by Kyle Knoepfel 9 months ago
- Status changed from New to Feedback
- Description updated (diff)
Jason, are you able to make a feature branch with the desired change? If this type of message indicates a normal situation, then changing the logging to MF_LOG_DEBUG is reasonable. Otherwise, some more thought should go into it. If this is not an exceptional circumstance, then throwing/catching an exception is not the best solution.
#2 Updated by Kyle Knoepfel 9 months ago
Any update on this, Jason?
#3 Updated by Jason Stock 9 months ago
No. I haven't done any work on this. I have not worked with this piece of the simulation, and reported the issue to solicit help/feedback from the maintainers responsible for LArVoxelReadout.
I don't think this is exceptional, as any charge generated outside the active region will not drift to a wire and any charge in the dead region will not drift to a wire. As I didn't introduce the warning however, I am not sure how important the author thinks this warning is.
#4 Updated by Kyle Knoepfel 9 months ago
LArVoxelReadout is no longer necessary with the refactored larg4 code. Once the experiments migrate to larg4, they will not see these messages. In the meantime, changing to MF_LOG_DEBUG is a good idea. Can you please do that?
#5 Updated by Jason Stock 9 months ago
Will do. I'll it later today (when I'm back to a computer)
Changing warning message from LArVoxelReadout that write many messages
for particles outside of the TPC or for each event to be debug level.
This addresses LArSoft issue #22452