Hi,
I am in the field of molecular biology, and I am currently aligning a huge file with DNA sequences to another file using terminal. There are all kinds of programs for this, I use a program called bowtie. The file to align is ±10GB. I used to do this on my macbook pro using an terminal account quite easily, where it would run a few hours to do this. However, for some reason the same analysis now takes 2-3 days to run, I don't know why. What I can see, is that the activity in terminal seems to be intermittent. It analyses for a couple minutes, then it stops for a long time, where it occasionally 'reactivates' and starts aligning again. I have the same when analyzing on an external drive, or on the hard-drive.
Does anyone know how this can happen? And more importantly, how to fix it and keep the analysis going till complete? This would be much appreciated!
Cheers
RJ
I am in the field of molecular biology, and I am currently aligning a huge file with DNA sequences to another file using terminal. There are all kinds of programs for this, I use a program called bowtie. The file to align is ±10GB. I used to do this on my macbook pro using an terminal account quite easily, where it would run a few hours to do this. However, for some reason the same analysis now takes 2-3 days to run, I don't know why. What I can see, is that the activity in terminal seems to be intermittent. It analyses for a couple minutes, then it stops for a long time, where it occasionally 'reactivates' and starts aligning again. I have the same when analyzing on an external drive, or on the hard-drive.
Does anyone know how this can happen? And more importantly, how to fix it and keep the analysis going till complete? This would be much appreciated!
Cheers
RJ