Miscellaneous Tips

An assortment of miscellaneous tips and tricks:

• Don't forget to include the -XY flag when logging in to SLAC! Without this, you will not be able to view files interactively through a TBrowser
• Use the -j flag when doing ldmx make install to expedite the process. A recommended setting is -j2, but you could go higher. Do keep the setting below -j10
• If you find that treeMaker.py isn't cooperating when you try to submit some batch jobs, it's probably because the container can't find cellmodule.txt or libFramework.so or both. To get around this, open up treeMaker.py and change lines 7 and 8 so that they use absolute file paths
• Use the bjobs command to monitor the status of all of your batch jobs. Alternatively, use bpeek <JOB_ID> to closely monitor the output of the job with the specified job ID
• If you're submitting a particularly large batch job and you need more time/memory, use the long queue and increase -W and -n appropriately. Do limit the number of cores you use to a reasonable amount
• If you absolutely must terminate all of your batch jobs, use bkill 0. Alternatively, use bkill <JOB_ID> to just kill the job with the specified job ID