bc8249599cb2e1365b24e7e331f5b61a2e6c73ff
hiram
  Fri Apr 17 08:57:06 2026 -0700
rais ram limit during chain run to 64g to prevent out of memory crashes

diff --git src/hg/utils/automation/doBlastzChainNet.pl src/hg/utils/automation/doBlastzChainNet.pl
index 767fd7e5a42..8aea268a935 100755
--- src/hg/utils/automation/doBlastzChainNet.pl
+++ src/hg/utils/automation/doBlastzChainNet.pl
@@ -834,32 +834,32 @@
     $defVars{'SEQ2_LIFT'} carry \$2
 rm \$2
 mv liftedChain/\${c}.lifted.chain \$2
 _EOF_
     ;
   }
   close($fh);
 
   &makePslPartsLst();
 
   my $whatItDoes =
 "It sets up and performs a small cluster run to chain all alignments
 to each target sequence.";
   my $bossScript = new HgRemoteScript("$runDir/doChainRun.csh", $paraHub,
 				      $runDir, $whatItDoes, $DEF);
-  # raise memory limit to 12g 2025-10-29
-  my $paraRun = &HgAutomate::paraRun("12g", 1);
+  # raise memory limit to 12g 2025-10-29 - raise to 64g 2026-04-17
+  my $paraRun = &HgAutomate::paraRun("64g", 1);
   my $gensub2 = &HgAutomate::gensub2();
   $bossScript->add(<<_EOF_
 chmod a+x chain.csh
 $gensub2 pslParts.lst single gsub jobList
 mkdir -p chain liftedChain
 $paraRun
 rmdir liftedChain
 _EOF_
   );
   $bossScript->execute();
 }	#	sub doChainRun {}
 
 
 sub postProcessChains {
   # chainMergeSort etc.