Brian Walenz - 2014-10-11

By chance, are your processes limited to only 2gb memory? It is failing on an allocation that, I think, pushes it above 2gb.

The HASH LOADING STOPPED lines claim that the table is mostly empty. You can reduce ovlHashBits by one and save a bunch of space.

http://wgs-assembler.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/RunCA#OVL_Overlapper

Do you have good reason to use 14-mers instead of the default? It won't help with memory usage, and will increase run times. It might actually be using more memory, because more 14-mers will look like useless repetitive kmers, and that's what it's trying to allocate space for.