Error: kmermatcher step died

[gbdias]

Hi @martin-steinegger, thanks for making conterminator available.

I've been trying to run it on a 450 GB fasta file, using 20 CPUs and 450 GB of RAM, but keep getting the following error:

./15038853176956681317/conterminatordna.sh: line 47: 64706 Killed                  $RUNNER "$MMSEQS" kmermatcher "$TMP_PATH/db_rev_split" "$TMP_PATH/pref" ${KMERMATCHER_PAR}
Error: kmermatcher step died

• I suspect this error comes from high memory usage since the peak for this job was 469,875,968kb for memory and 1,185,770,492kb for virtual memory. Do you agree with this?
• Could I remediate this situation by using fewer parallel threads or the only way is to provide more memory?

Thanks