abyss instead of spades

[ramcn]

Hello,

I was trying to run Unicycler on a Arm core with limited memory (1GB). Except Spades most of the tools work. So was wondering how to modify Unicycler to use a less memory intensive assembler like Abyss instead of Spades.

Cheers, Ram

[stevenjdunn]

Spades uses 512 Mb of RAM per thread, so you could try invoking with a single core. You could also manually set the memory limit as described in #215, which would reduce the memory buffer allocated on a per-thread basis. So for e.g. if you have 4 threads, setting -m to 200 may help? It would be super slow though!

If you're from an academic institution you could sign up to Climb, which offers free access to cloud compute.