convertails getting killed due to the memory

[ahof1704]

mmseqs gets killed when saving the output:

convertalis /tmp/queryDB /root/mmseqs2_db/swissprot_human /tmp/resultDB resultDB.tab --format-output query,target,evalue,qaln,taln,taxname,pident,cigar 

MMseqs Version:         15.6f452
Substitution matrix     aa:blosum62.out,nucl:nucleotide.out
Alignment format        0
Format alignment output query,target,evalue,qaln,taln,taxname,pident,cigar
Translation table       1
Gap open cost           aa:11,nucl:5
Gap extension cost      aa:1,nucl:2
Database output         false
Preload mode            0
Search type             0
Threads                 64
Compressed              0
Verbosity               3

[=================================================================] 100.00% 808.21K 11m 56s 982ms    
Time for merging to resultDB.tab: 0h 1m 1s 325ms
Time for processing: 0h 13m 1s 476ms
Killed

Is there a way to split this process in memory, similarly to what we do during search?

[stas-malavin]

Hi @ahof1704 ,
convertalis uses very little resources. I doubt this issue is a memory issue.
Actually, error messages in MMSeqs2 are quite uninformative. In my experience, if you get a 'Killed' message in a case where memory is surely involved, it doesn't mean that another 'Killed' means the same.