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  • qqcandy
    Member
    • Sep 2008
    • 15

    #1

    Picard MergeSamFile Memory Increase

    Does anyone know how I can increase the memory allowance of Picard MergeSamFile? The current one always use around 2 to 3G, no matter how much memory the machine actually has... And I can't find any parameter in Picard MergeSamFile that control the memory...

    Wondering whether MergeSamFile is faster with more than 3G memory too...

    Thanks!
  • drio
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2008
    • 323

    #2
    Pass -Xmx XG to your virtual machine where XG is the amount of memory you want
    to use.

    Also, use the multithreading option (USE_THREADING=Boolean) that has been recently added to picard. That should increase the performance by 20% (From the picard docs).
    -drd

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