Limit number of errors. Add min pedestal event command line parameter.

docs/changes/298.bugfix.md

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Limit number of errors printed when reading faulty VBF files to avoid TB large log files.

docs/changes/298.feature.md

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add new command line parameter `--minpedestalevents` to set the minimum number of required pedestal events (default: 50).

inc/VDetectorTree.h

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ class VDetectorTree
         VDetectorTree();
         ~VDetectorTree();
         bool fillDetectorTree( VDetectorGeometry* iDet );
-        bool readDetectorTree( VDetectorGeometry* iDet, TTree* iTree);
+        bool readDetectorTree( VDetectorGeometry* iDet, TTree* iTree );
         TTree* getTree()
         {
             return fTreeDet;

inc/VEvndispRunParameter.h

@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ class VEvndispRunParameter : public TNamed, public VGlobalRunParameter
         bool fWriteImagePixelList;        // write image pixel list to tpars tree
         string fLowGainCalibrationFile;           // file with file name for low-gain calibration
         int fNCalibrationEvents;                  // events to be used for calibration
+        int fNMinimumNumberOfPedestalEvents;      // minimum number of pedestal events required for pedestal calculation
         float faverageTZeroFiducialRadius;        // fiducial radius for average tzero calculation (DST), in fraction of FOV
         unsigned int fCombineChannelsForPedestalCalculation; // combine all channels per telescope type for the pedestal calculation
         vector< int > fGainFileNumber;
@@ -297,6 +298,7 @@ class VEvndispRunParameter : public TNamed, public VGlobalRunParameter
         // functions
         void print();
         void print( int iEV );
+        void printCTA_DST();
 
         VEvndispRunParameter( bool bSetGlobalParameter = true );
         ~VEvndispRunParameter();
@@ -331,6 +333,6 @@ class VEvndispRunParameter : public TNamed, public VGlobalRunParameter
             return ( fDBTextDirectory.size() > 0 );
         }
 
-        ClassDef( VEvndispRunParameter, 2007 ); //(increase this number)
+        ClassDef( VEvndispRunParameter, 2008 ); //(increase this number)
 };
 #endif

src/VBFDataReader.cpp

@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ bool VBFDataReader::getNextEvent()
     }
     bool bSimulations = false;
 
+    unsigned int n_error_prints = 0;
+
     try
     {
         if( fDebug )
@@ -63,10 +65,15 @@ bool VBFDataReader::getNextEvent()
             }
             catch( const std::exception& e )
             {
-                std::cout << "VBFDataReader::getNextEvent: exception while reading file: "
-                          << e.what() << std::endl;
+                // corrupt files otherwise generated 100s of GB of log files
+                if( n_error_prints < 5000 )
+                {
+                    std::cout << "VBFDataReader::getNextEvent: exception while reading file: "
+                              << e.what() << std::endl;
+                }
                 pack = old_pack;
                 setEventStatus( 0 );
+                n_error_prints++;
                 return false;
             }
             delete old_pack;

src/VBaseRawDataReader.cpp

@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ bool VBaseRawDataReader::getHiLo( uint32_t i )
         {
             return fEvent[fTelID]->getHiLo( i );
         }
-        catch(...)
+        catch( ... )
         {
             cout << "EXCEPTION " << i << endl;
             return false;

src/VCalibrator.cpp

@@ -431,16 +431,15 @@ void VCalibrator::writePeds( bool iLowGain, VPedestalCalculator* iPedestalCalcul
                 for( unsigned int i = 0; i < hped_vec[telType][0].size(); i++ )
                 {
                     // get pedestal and pedestal variances from pedestal histograms
-                    // (require at least 100 entries in pedestal events)
                     os << t << " " << i << " ";
                     if( hped_vec[telType][fRunPar->fCalibrationSumWindow - 1][i]
-                            && hped_vec[telType][fRunPar->fCalibrationSumWindow - 1][i]->GetEntries() > 50 )
+                            && hped_vec[telType][fRunPar->fCalibrationSumWindow - 1][i]->GetEntries() > fRunPar->fNMinimumNumberOfPedestalEvents )
                     {
                         os << hped_vec[telType][fRunPar->fCalibrationSumWindow - 1][i]->GetMean() / ( double )fRunPar->fCalibrationSumWindow << " ";
                     }
                     else
                     {
-                        cout << "VCalibrator::writePeds(): WARNING, less than 50 events ";
+                        cout << "VCalibrator::writePeds(): WARNING, less than " << fRunPar->fNMinimumNumberOfPedestalEvents << " events ";
                         if( hped_vec[telType][fRunPar->fCalibrationSumWindow - 1][i] )
                         {
                             cout << "(";
@@ -454,7 +453,7 @@ void VCalibrator::writePeds( bool iLowGain, VPedestalCalculator* iPedestalCalcul
                     // loop over all window sizes
                     for( unsigned int j = 0; j < hped_vec[telType].size(); j++ )
                     {
-                        if( hped_vec[telType][j][i] && hped_vec[telType][j][i]->GetEntries() > 50 )
+                        if( hped_vec[telType][j][i] && hped_vec[telType][j][i]->GetEntries() > fRunPar->fNMinimumNumberOfPedestalEvents )
                         {
                             os << hped_vec[telType][j][i]->GetRMS() << " ";
                         }

src/VDetectorTree.cpp

@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ bool VDetectorTree::fillDetectorTree( VDetectorGeometry* iDet )
 }
 
 
-bool VDetectorTree::readDetectorTree( VDetectorGeometry* iDet, TTree* iTree)
+bool VDetectorTree::readDetectorTree( VDetectorGeometry* iDet, TTree* iTree )
 {
     if(!iDet || !iTree )
     {

src/VEvndispRunParameter.cpp

@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ VEvndispRunParameter::VEvndispRunParameter( bool bSetGlobalParameter ) : VGlobal
     fLowGainCalibrationFile = "calibrationlist.LowGain.dat";
     fcalibrationrun = false;
     fNCalibrationEvents = -1;
+    fNMinimumNumberOfPedestalEvents = 50;
     fLaserSumMin = 50000.;
     fGainFileNumber.push_back( 0 );
     fTOffFileNumber.push_back( 0 );
@@ -527,6 +528,10 @@ void VEvndispRunParameter::print( int iEv )
     {
         cout << "number of events in calibration analysis: " << fNCalibrationEvents << endl;
     }
+    if( frunmode == 1 )
+    {
+        cout << "Minimum number of required pedestal events: " << fNMinimumNumberOfPedestalEvents << endl;
+    }
     if( frunmode == 4 )
     {
         cout << "dstfile: " << fdstfile << " (mintubes: " << fdstminntubes << ")" << endl;

src/VReadRunParameter.cpp

@@ -675,6 +675,10 @@ bool VReadRunParameter::readCommandline( int argc, char* argv[] )
         {
             fRunPara->fNCalibrationEvents  = atoi( iTemp.substr( iTemp.rfind( "=" ) + 1, iTemp.size() ).c_str() );
         }
+        else if( iTemp.find( "minpedestalevents" ) < iTemp.size() )
+        {
+            fRunPara->fNMinimumNumberOfPedestalEvents = atoi( iTemp.substr( iTemp.rfind( "=" ) + 1, iTemp.size() ).c_str() );
+        }
         // first event number (skip to this point)
         else if( iTemp.rfind( "firstevent" ) < iTemp.size() )
         {