samtools sort Failed to open file问题

  • 报错
[bam_sort_core] merging from 2525 files and 1 in-memory blocks...
[E::hts_open_format] Failed to open file "2_5_merged.sort.bam.tmp.1020.bam" : Too many open files
  • 原脚本
samtools sort  -o w.sort.bam w.merged.bam
  • 排查原因:临时文件生成太多导致,改善方法就是增大临时文件可写入的大小来减少文件个数
$ samtools sort
Usage: samtools sort [options...] [in.bam]
-m INT     Set maximum memory per thread; suffix K/M/G recognized [768M]

#改写参数
samtools sort -m 2G -o w.sort.bam w.merged.bam

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