hello,

in the rtt we have many very large log files from some tests. the nominal limit is 20 mb before the file has to be removed from afs and put in castor, and for mc10_bstoaod.log log files can be up to 400-500 mb currently. i looked why this might be so large and find in every event this printed out:

trackcollectioncnv: hlt_indettrigparticlecreati...warning trackparameter doesn't have a surface! dumping: trk::measuredataplane parameters:
 * locx  : -4.732
 * locy  : -1.582
 * phi   : 2.788
 * theta : 1.387
 * q/p   : 0.00003
 * corresponding global parameters:
-&gt; with errormatrix: 
trk::covariancematrix of dimension  = 5
      0.0002076     -1.952e-05     -1.159e-06     -5.336e-07     -2.951e-09
     -1.952e-05       0.006247      1.288e-07      4.103e-05      7.221e-10
     -1.159e-06      1.288e-07      1.399e-08      2.918e-09      3.305e-11
     -5.336e-07      4.103e-05      2.918e-09      7.621e-07      1.508e-11
     -2.951e-09      7.221e-10      3.305e-11      1.508e-11       2.55e-13
______________________________________________________________________
-&gt; with measurement frame
         colx  = (1.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000)
         coly  = (0.0000, 1.0000, 0.0000)
         colz  = (0.0000, 0.0000, 1.0000)

a large number of times. should this perhaps be supressed via making it verbose or debug level to avoid these huge log files?

the problem is not unique in 16.6.x.y:

[mhodgkin@lxplus407]/tmp/mhodgkin% grep mc10_bstoaod ~rtt/public/biglogs.300mb.log
[483.7 mb] /castor/cern.ch/atlas/atlascerngroupdisk/proj-sit/rtt/rtt/rel_3/16.6.x.y/build/i686-slc5-gcc43-opt/offline/recjobtransformtests/mc10_bstoaod/mc10_bstoaod_log
[483.7 mb] /castor/cern.ch/atlas/atlascerngroupdisk/proj-sit/rtt/rtt/rel_3/16.6.x.y-val/build/i686-slc5-gcc43-opt/offline/recjobtransformtests/mc10_bstoaod/mc10_bstoaod_log
[483.7 mb] /castor/cern.ch/atlas/atlascerngroupdisk/proj-sit/rtt/rtt/rel_3/16.6.x/build/i686-slc5-gcc43-opt/offline/recjobtransformtests/mc10_bstoaod/mc10_bstoaod_log
[484.2 mb] /castor/cern.ch/atlas/atlascerngroupdisk/proj-sit/rtt/rtt/rel_3/dev/build/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/offline/recjobtransformtests/mc10_bstoaod/mc10_bstoaod_log
[483.7 mb] /castor/cern.ch/atlas/atlascerngroupdisk/proj-sit/rtt/rtt/rel_4/16.6.x.y/build/i686-slc5-gcc43-opt/offline/recjobtransformtests/mc10_bstoaod/mc10_bstoaod_log
[483.7 mb] /castor/cern.ch/atlas/atlascerngroupdisk/proj-sit/rtt/rtt/rel_4/16.6.x.y-val/build/i686-slc5-gcc43-opt/offline/recjobtransformtests/mc10_bstoaod/mc10_bstoaod_log
[483.7 mb] /castor/cern.ch/atlas/atlascerngroupdisk/proj-sit/rtt/rtt/rel_4/16.6.x/build/i686-slc5-gcc43-opt/offline/recjobtransformtests/mc10_bstoaod/mc10_bstoaod_log
[485.2 mb] /castor/cern.ch/atlas/atlascerngroupdisk/proj-sit/rtt/rtt/rel_4/16.5.x.y/build/i686-slc5-gcc43-opt/offline/recjobtransformtests/mc10_bstoaod/mc10_bstoaod_log
[483.7 mb] /castor/cern.ch/atlas/atlascerngroupdisk/proj-sit/rtt/rtt/rel_4/16.6.x-val/build/i686-slc5-gcc43-opt/offline/recjobtransformtests/mc10_bstoaod/mc10_bstoaod_log
[485.2 mb] /castor/cern.ch/atlas/atlascerngroupdisk/proj-sit/rtt/rtt/rel_4/16.5.x.y-val/build/i686-slc5-gcc43-opt/offline/recjobtransformtests/mc10_bstoaod/mc10_bstoaod_log
[484.2 mb] /castor/cern.ch/atlas/atlascerngroupdisk/proj-sit/rtt/rtt/rel_4/dev/build/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/offline/recjobtransformtests/mc10_bstoaod/mc10_bstoaod_log


cheers,

mark