[mira_talk] Re: Mira says "killed" as last word after being almost done

  • From: Adrian Pelin <apelin20@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mira_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 12:38:11 -0400

and nohup means nothing can kill it? I also understand that using multi
threaded not=8 makes mira sue another algorythm.



On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:22 PM, John Nash <john.he.nash@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When I run mira, I include:
>
> nohup mira --project=whatever --job=denovo,genome,accurate,454
> -GE:not=8:kpmf=15 >&log_assembly.txt &
>
> not=8 uses 8 processors in some of the assembly stages. kpmf=15 (depending
> on which server I use, I change it from 10-20 according to experience) is
> the command to "keep percent memory free"
>
> Hth
>
> John
>
> On 2011-05-12, at 12:13 PM, Adrian Pelin wrote:
>
> No, this was done on VMware, me being the only root/user, no other person
> knows the passwd. No other jobs have been running.
>
> Qhat do you mean change kpmf to 20?
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:58 AM, John Nash <john.he.nash@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> I have had mira crash a few times on my 12 CPU 64-bit Dell server running
>> SLES (yuk), 32 GB RAM.
>>
>> Looking at dmesg, it appears that each time it was a RAM resources issue.
>>  It turned out that somebody else was running a huge job on the server at
>> night, which caused problems.  Are you the only user?  Are there other
>> automated jobs which are RAM intensive which could be causing the crash?
>>  Have you tried changing kpmf to 20? Do you use all 8 processors?
>>
>> FWIW, I run mira as "nohup mira etc... &" after some uh-oh moments.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2011-05-12, at 11:28 AM, Adrian Pelin wrote:
>>
>> The & is a neet idea. However commenting on:
>>
>> > - Maybe you killed it by error when connecting... does the time of
>> creating of your log corresponds to the time you connected remotely?
>>
>> Likely not since the last modification done to any of the listed files was
>> 1 h before i connected. And to kill you need to ctrl+c it, and it does not
>> say killed, I have killed it with ctrl + c many times and it never said
>> Killed. Likely got killed by something and the only culprit is the OS. I
>> think it has to do with OOM Killer which kills stuff when it goes crazy. I
>> told Mira to leave 15% of memory free but who knows, maybe it went crazy on
>> the CPU and that is why it got killed, or maybe it is the running time that
>> you mentioned.
>>
>> This is a 32 GB server with 2 quad core cpus.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Lionel Guy <guy.lionel@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 12 May 2011, at 17:12 , Adrian Pelin wrote:
>>>
>>> > - I did not do it since i was home and connected remotly to find out it
>>> is dead
>>>
>>> Maybe you killed it by error when connecting... does the time of creating
>>> of your log corresponds to the time you connected remotely?
>>>
>>> > - That means that only the OS could of killed because of exceeded
>>> resource usage or max run time, which it is I have no idea:(
>>>
>>> I doubt it, it would have been in the case where you were running things
>>> on a cluster with a queuing system. Not on y standard desktop box.
>>>
>>> I'd just run it again (try to run it in the background to avoid logging
>>> off problems)
>>>
>>> mira --fastq --project=gigaspora -proout=gigaspora_denovo
>>> --job=denovo,genome,accurate,454,solexa SOLEXA_SETTINGS
>>> -GE:tismin=50:tismax=350;tpbd=1 > log_hybdn.txt &
>>>
>>> (note the "&" at the far end of the command)
>>> Lionel
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>>
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