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[akritkbehera]

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A new Pull Request was created by @akritkbehera for branch master.

@akritkbehera, @cmsbuild, @iarspider, @raoatifshad, @smuzaffar can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@ftenchini, @mandrenguyen, @sextonkennedy you are the release manager for this.
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[akritkbehera]

please test

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+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-d55375/51224/summary.html
COMMIT: 079f291
CMSSW: CMSSW_16_1_X_2026-02-09-2300/el8_amd64_gcc13
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/cms-bot/2678/51224/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

The workflows 2025.0010001, 2024.0050001, 2023.0020001, 2022.0030001 have different files in step1_dasquery.log than the ones found in the baseline. You may want to check and retrigger the tests if necessary. You can check it in the "files" directory in the results of the comparisons

Summary:

• You potentially added 23 lines to the logs
• ROOTFileChecks: Some differences in event products or their sizes found
• Reco comparison results: 15859 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 52
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3977722
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 21864
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 136
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3955702
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 20
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 5.559999999999999 KiB( 50 files compared)
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 2023.0020001 ): 20.484 KiB Hcal/DigiRunHarvesting
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 2023.0020001 ): 0.539 KiB RPC/DCSInfo
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 2023.0020001 ): -0.043 KiB JetMET/SUSYDQM
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 2023.0020001 ): -0.005 KiB SiStrip/MechanicalView
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 2024.0050001 ): 3.309 KiB Hcal/DigiRunHarvesting
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 2024.0050001 ): -0.171 KiB SiStrip/MechanicalView
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 2024.0050001 ): 0.082 KiB JetMET/SUSYDQM
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 2024.0050001 ): 0.082 KiB RPC/DCSInfo
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 2025.0010001 ): -17.961 KiB Hcal/DigiRunHarvesting
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 2025.0010001 ): -0.445 KiB RPC/DCSInfo
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 2025.0010001 ): ...
• Checked 222 log files, 193 edm output root files, 52 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

Max Memory Comparisons exceeding threshold

@cms-sw/core-l2 , I found 1 workflow step(s) with memory usage exceeding the error threshold:

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• Error: Workflow 2023.0020001_RunJetMET02023D_10k step3 max memory diff 181.1 exceeds +/- 90.0 MiB

[smuzaffar]

+externals

thanks @akritkbehera , we will merge it once bot closes cms-sw/cmssw#50072

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This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next master IBs (tests are also fine). This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @mandrenguyen, @ftenchini, @sextonkennedy (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)