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HiSat2 Error

Hello,

I am using HiSat2 to align paired-end sequencing data. I get the following error though: (ERR): hisat2-align died with signal 24 (XCPU) . I do not know what signal 24 means. Can anyone help? Both datasets are the same length. Thank you in advanced.

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1 answer

It appears that signal 24 SIGXCPU means

The operating system sends this signal to a process that has exceeded its CPU limit. You can cancel any CPU limit with the shell command “ulimit -t unlimited” prior to running make though it is more likely that something has gone wrong if you reach the CPU limit in make

https://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/courses/moved.Building/signals.pdf

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