[Seqan-dev] question about mason

[Sonia Vivas <vivas@molecularhealth.com>]

Hi!
I'm using seqan mason to generate mate pairs reads:

./build/Release/core/apps/mason/mason illumina -i -s $i -N 10000000 -n 
50 -mp -hM 8 -hnN -o ./reads.fa ./fake_patient.fasta

I do not need the sam file as output, is there any way of avoiding that 
is generated? ( I didn't find any option...)
I need high coverage, therefore the 10 million reads. This is taking a 
lot of time and memory (50 minutes and up to 30Gb), is there a reason 
for this to take so much memory? am I doing something wrong? (my fasta 
file is 2.9Gb).

Thank you for your help,

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Sonia Vivas