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3.3 years ago by
catic.andre • 0
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catic.andre • 0 wrote:

Hello,

I was running Tophat2 on a 14 GB groomed fastq file. Local setup, 8 GB RAM, default Tophat2 settings for single end. After 16 hours, I receive the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/catic/galaxy/lib/galaxy/jobs/runners/local.py", line 129, in queue_job
    job_wrapper.finish( stdout, stderr, exit_code )
  File "/home/catic/galaxy/lib/galaxy/jobs/__init__.py", line 1199, in finish
    dataset.datatype.set_meta( dataset, overwrite=False )
  File "/home/catic/galaxy/lib/galaxy/datatypes/binary.py", line 281, in set_meta
    proc = subprocess.Popen( args=command, stderr=open( stderr_name, 'wb' ) )
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 710, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1327, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Tool execution generated the following error message:

Unable to finish job

 

Does anyone know where the problem is?
Thank you,

Andre


 
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modified 3.3 years ago by Jennifer Hillman Jackson ♦ 25k • written 3.3 years ago by catic.andre • 0
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3.3 years ago by
Jennifer Hillman Jackson ♦ 25k
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Jennifer Hillman Jackson ♦ 25k wrote:

Hello,

This was probably a failure due to the job exceeding memory resources. 8 GB is the minimum recommended for a local Galaxy. 16 GB would be better (and possibly more) for RNA-seq analysis.

The truth test is if the job will execute line command. As a general rule, if a job will execute in an environment line command, then it will execute in Galaxy, given the same resources. 

Best, Jen, Galaxy team

 
ADD COMMENT • link written 3.3 years ago by Jennifer Hillman Jackson ♦ 25k

Thank you, Jennifer. 16 GB RAM didn't do much, but 64 GB did the trick :-)

One problem, though: the working job files get excessively large running Tophat2 on a 15 GB fastq file (>50 GB). Is this to be expected?
Thanks again.

Andre

ADD REPLY • link written 3.3 years ago by catic.andre • 0

The size of the data will depend on the fastq sequence content, the finished state of the reference genome, how much repetitive data the reference fastq/genome contain, and the Tophat2 settings. In short, the more permissive the match criteria, the more memory a job will require and the larger the data footprint. See the Tophat manual for more details about how to tune these parameters to increase match stringency if the size becomes problematic.

Thanks, Jen

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