Errno 28 running feature-classifier Silva - message Killed: 9

[Nicholas_Bokulich]

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Then I re-ran my feature-classifier and this time it ran for longer and then I got the message Killed: 9 nothing else and no taxonomy file exported.

This is a memory error — see here for troubleshooting details:

Feature-classifiers error

This is a memory error; essentially you do not have enough memory to open the SILVA classifier on your computer. This is low for the SILVA classifier — it will often take up to 32GB+ if left to its own devices! There’s a couple of things you might be able to do. First, you can use the --p-reads-per-batch parameter (e.g., set to 1000 or 2000) to reduce the number of reads classified at a time. However, it looks like you do not have enough memory to load the SILVA classifier, not the reads, s…

Good luck!