Moritz E. Beber

Hi @atongsa, I haven't yet come across Aspera in a Docker image which is a hard requirement for nf-core pipelines. If you come across a solution for that it would...

Sounds promising.

Maybe users on Azure can define `NCBI_SETTINGS` to a writable path? Something like ```groovy env.NCBI_SETTINGS = '/common/writable/path/vdb.conf' ``` I don't have access to facilities to test this.

You need to separate profiles by comma without any spaces: ``` nextflow run nf-core/fetchngs -profile test,docker ```

I was wondering while creating the module if there is ever a downside to not limiting the download size at all. I guess it could be somewhat unexpected to get...

I would be okay with setting the default `args` to `--max-size u` then it can still be overwritten.

In your local config, you can set ```nextflow process { withName: SRATOOLS_PREFETCH { ext.args = '--max-size 60g' } } ```

What if you set fasterq-dump to run single-threaded? Would that solve the issue? `fasterq` is basically deprecated so I wouldn't want to introduce it if it can be avoided.

@jfy133 I think we have working code for this in funcscan or taxprofiler already, right?

Thanks for the report @dmalzl, will add a fix immediately. I will just remove the flag since most of the time nobody will follow the log output anyway.