build step failed after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'

[rmormando]

I am trying to build a kmer db using the k-mer output from KMC but I keep getting an error.

This is the command I am running:

./kmer-db build -from-kmers ./KMC.list ./output/KMC_out.db

Where the list looks like this:

Sample1
Sample2
Sample3
...

And the files in the directory are like this:

Sample1.kmc_pre
Sample1.kmc_suf
Sample2.kmc_pre
Sample2.kmc_suf
Sample3.kmc_pre
Sample3.kmc_suf
...

But I get this error when I try to run it:

Kmer-db version 1.11.1 (07.03.2023)
S. Deorowicz, A. Gudys, M. Dlugosz, M. Kokot, and A. Danek (c) 2018

Analysis started at Thu Dec 14 23:19:36 2023

Database building mode (from k-mers)
Processing samples...
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
  what():  std::bad_alloc
Aborted

Is there a quick fix for this?