Picard's SortSam error with a merged bam file

[tomato2]

Hello,

I tried to sort a merged bam file (70Gb) from whole genome sequnecing, but got an error as below. I guess the problem is related to TMP_DIR. Is TMP_DIR option necessary?

Here's the command I used.

SortSam \
SORT_ORDER=coordinate TMP_DIR=/home/yunjungk/span_wgs/tmp_spa5w/ \
VERBOSITY=ERROR \
INPUT=$1.bam \
OUTPUT=$1v1.bam

Any advice would be appreciated.

****Error message***********************************
Exception in thread "main" net.sf.samtools.util.RuntimeIOException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/yunjungk/span_wgs/tmp_spa5w/sortingcollection.9063505166460361303.tmp (Too many open files)
at net.sf.samtools.util.SortingCollection$FileRecordIterator.<init>(SortingCollection.java:386)
at net.sf.samtools.util.SortingCollection$MergingIterator.<init>(SortingCollection.java:325)
at net.sf.samtools.util.SortingCollection.iterator(SortingCollection.java:221)
at net.sf.samtools.util.SortingCollection.iterator(SortingCollection.java:42)
at net.sf.samtools.SAMFileWriterImpl.close(SAMFileWriterImpl.java:177)
at net.sf.picard.sam.SortSam.doWork(SortSam.java:61)
at net.sf.picard.cmdline.CommandLineProgram.instanceMain(CommandLineProgram.java:150)
at net.sf.picard.cmdline.CommandLineProgram.instanceMainWithExit(CommandLineProgram.java:117)
at net.sf.picard.sam.SortSam.main(SortSam.java:66)

Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/yunjungk/span_wgs/tmp_spa5w/sortingcollection.9063505166460361303.tmp (Too many open files)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:106)
at net.sf.samtools.util.SortingCollection$FileRecordIterator.<init>(SortingCollection.java:380)
... 8 more

[seq_GA]

Hi,
Did you manage to soleve this issue? I am also getting the same error while trying ReOrder a bam file.

java -jar /picard-tools-1.48/ReorderSam.jar I=test_PCRremoved.bam O=test_PCRremoved_reOrder.bam R=/genome/hg19_full/hg19.fa

[Wed Nov 02 13:02:30 SGT 2011] net.sf.picard.sam.ReorderSam done. Elapsed time: 53.56 minutes.
Runtime.totalMemory()=11474370560
Exception in thread "main" net.sf.samtools.util.RuntimeIOException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /tmp/userrig/sortingcollection.6171299671671922515.tmp (Too many open files)
at net.sf.samtools.util.SortingCollection$FileRecordIterator.<init>(SortingCollection.java:410)
at net.sf.samtools.util.SortingCollection$MergingIterator.<init>(SortingCollection.java:349)
at net.sf.samtools.util.SortingCollection.iterator(SortingCollection.java:242)
at net.sf.samtools.util.SortingCollection.iterator(SortingCollection.java:43)
at net.sf.samtools.SAMFileWriterImpl.close(SAMFileWriterImpl.java:177)
at net.sf.picard.sam.ReorderSam.doWork(ReorderSam.java:119)
at net.sf.picard.cmdline.CommandLineProgram.instanceMain(CommandLineProgram.java:158)
at net.sf.picard.cmdline.CommandLineProgram.instanceMainWithExit(CommandLineProgram.java:118)
at net.sf.picard.sam.ReorderSam.main(ReorderSam.java:76)
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /tmp/userrig/sortingcollection.6171299671671922515.tmp (Too many open files)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:120)
at net.sf.samtools.util.SortingCollection$FileRecordIterator.<init>(SortingCollection.java:404)
... 8 more