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fastqc is out of RAM #2989
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Thanks, what was the FastQC command line that failed? I think we can add an explicit |
The VM got killed already. It was a regular fastqc command. I think fastqc is a perl script that does not allow to set up java memory. Instead it is doing hardcoded mem=threads*250M https://github.com/s-andrews/FastQC/blob/master/fastqc#L166 So, I will just use 2 threads as suggested in here s-andrews/FastQC#24 |
Ah, interesting! |
In the default bcbio installation in bcbio/galaxy/bcbio_system.yaml we have
so fastqc is being called as However, in some installations people do bcbio/galaxy/bcbio_system.yaml:
So default is 1, and fastqc call is Reminding myself how cores work for a multicore job project.
Probably, the easiest way to tackle this situation is to avoid setting SN |
Sergey; |
Thanks, @chapmanb ! |
In an attempt to close #378 following bcbio/bcbio-nextgen#2989 via s-andrews/FastQC#24
In an attempt to close nf-core#378 following bcbio/bcbio-nextgen#2989 via s-andrews/FastQC#24
Hi!
In some rare cases 250m RAM is not enough for fastqc:
Running fastqc from the command line with
-t 2
allocates 500M and works:s-andrews/FastQC#24
It looks like we don't have an options to control fastqc threads or memory from bcbio.yaml.
bcbio-nextgen/bcbio/qc/fastqc.py
Line 47 in 987656b
And we need it.
SN
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