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markDuplicatesSpark running out of memory

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    Genevieve Brandt (she/her)

    Hi Matt Snyder,

    Thanks for writing into the GATK forum! We took a look and have some ideas to troubleshoot this issue:

    1. We don't normally run MarkDuplicatesSpark on multiple bams. Could you try running MergeBamAlignment on your alignment output and use only one bam as input to MarkDuplicatesSpark?
    2. Make sure you are specifying spark local options: https://github.com/broadinstitute/gatk#running-gatk4-spark-tools-locally 
      We would recommend that you decrease the cores because running MarkDuplicatesSpark doesn't see much speed up anyway with more cores in local mode.

    Let me know how this goes for you.

    Best,

    Genevieve

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    Matt Snyder

    Thanks, Genevieve Brandt (she/her)!

    1. I will try merging the bam files first. This also makes sense because then I only have to sort one BAM file instead of dozens.
    2. Do you have a recommended number of threads? I actually only requested 16 cores in the cloud worker, but since the huge ram I requested requires a bigger instance, I got 48. I'll try specifying 16 in the call to MarkDuplicatesSpark.

    I'll give this a shot and let you know how it goes.

    Thanks!

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    Genevieve Brandt (she/her)

    Matt Snyder 4-8 would be the most efficient but if you have more cores you could use up to 16. 

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