# Something wrong when creating a classifier for taxonomic analysis

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/something-wrong-when-creating-a-classifier-for-taxonomic-analysis/3106
**Category:** User Support
**Tags:** feature-classifier, memory
**Created:** [February 20, 2018, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/something-wrong-when-creating-a-classifier-for-taxonomic-analysis/3106 "2018-02-20T15:15:56Z")
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### Author: ![Nicholas\_Bokulich](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/nicholas_bokulich/32/19937_2.png) [@Nicholas\_Bokulich](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Nicholas_Bokulich)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2018, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/something-wrong-when-creating-a-classifier-for-taxonomic-analysis/3106/2 "2018-02-20T15:17:50Z")

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If you read to the bottom of the log, you see that you have a `MemoryError`. Your computer does not have enough memory to train a new classifier.

This is a very common issue and has been covered many times on this forum — e.g., see [this post](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/taxonomic-classifier-plugin-error/3032) for discussion and a potential solution.

I hope that helps!

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