Daniel Standage

To be clear, I meant another *additional* story, not another *alternative* story.

Hi @moldach! The workflow is failing at a k-mer counting step due to insufficient memory. There are a few ways to address this. 1. If memory is abundant on your...

> OSError: Error reading from k-mer count file: Reference/refr-counts.smallcounttable Cannot allocate memory This means you ran out of memory on the machine: it cannot hold all the k-mer count tables...

> Was it only `recountmem` which needed to be increased? Actually, not much memory is required for recounting. Increasing the `memory` for each case and control sample would have been...

Sorry for the delayed response. Can you show the the precise commands you ran (starting with `kevlar count`) that led to this error message? How much memory does your computer...

With respect to using the mask in the `kevlar count` command with or instead of the `kevlar filter` command, I agree that the docs could use some clarification. But yes,...

> Is it usual for the kevlar filter command to report a much higher FPR than the kevlar count data it uses? `kevlar filter` re-computes k-mer counts for k-mers marked...

Thanks for the report @17tranap! I'm not actively working on kevlar at the moment, so it may take me some time to get around to fixing this.

Thanks for the report. Did you use the default `"numsplit": 16` in your config file? As you've probably guessed, this is used to split the data and compute some later...

Roger that. I'll close this thread once the documentation has been clarified.