Hey guys, I am doing de novo assembly. The data is downloaded from NCBI and they are DNA-seq short paired-end reads, 100bp x 2, about 120G in total. I use SOAPdenovo to assembly them. The k-mer value was set 29. After 10 hours, the server reported like this:

    Ran out of memory while applying 13290854152bytes
    There may be errors as follows:
    1) Not enough memory.
    2) The ARRAY may be overrode.
    3) The wild pointers.

It was done on a server with 768G RAM and 50T internal storage. I don't know why it ran out of memory while applying 13G data, could anyone explain a little bit? There was no other tasks during the assembly.

Thank you.
Did you use the latest version? There was a bug giving the same error in previous versions, see [here][1], they seem to have fixed it in newer versions.


  [1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bgi-soap/y0Q8g9WUFa0