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  • How best to use --bflyHeapSpaceMax and --bflyGCThreads on Trinity

    I am currently using trinity v2.6.0. My jobs keep crashing at the butterfly stage of the analysis, with such error messages as:
    succeeded(1008), failed(108076) 99.9771% completed. Invalid maximum heap size: -Xmx16G
    The specified size exceeds the maximum representable size.
    Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
    Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

    There is clearly a problem with assigning enough memory to the JVM. My overall memory and CPU allocation for the last job I ran were:
    #PBS -l procs=64
    #PBS -l mem=1048320mb

    and the run parameters of Trinity were:
    --max_memory 1024G \
    --bflyHeapSpaceMax 16G \
    --bflyGCThreads 16 \
    --normalize_reads \
    --CPU 64 \


    I would like to know what the --bflyHeapSpaceMax option specifies. Is it the maximum JVM heap space overall, or for each thread Trinity has generated?

    Should I simply set the --bflyHeapSpaceMax to the same value as --max_memory?

    I understand that the --bflyGCThreads option removes objects from the JVM once they are no longer in use, and in doing so frees up the memory. Is this correct?

    Should I allocate on butterfly GC thread for each CPU/thread used by Trinity?

    Does Trinity generate more than one butterfly GC thread on a single CPU?

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