I have been trying to run BEAST 2.6.6 for 100 +million generations (data contains 23 taxa (including 1 outgroup) for a length of 24.8 kb DNA sequence, on computer with 8 GB RAM and 3.4 Hz processor. I haven't had success so far owing to the following error:
10710000 -40633.9022 27.8 -40552.5612 -81.3410 37m5s/Msamples
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at beast.app.beastapp.BeastLauncher.run(Unknown Source)
at beast.app.beastapp.BeastLauncher.main(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
at multitypetree.operators.UniformizationRetypeOperator.retypeBranch(Unknown Source)
at multitypetree.operators.TypedWilsonBalding.retypeRootBranches(Unknown Source)
at multitypetree.operators.TypedWilsonBalding.proposal(Unknown Source)
at beast.core.Operator.proposal(Unknown Source)
at beast.core.MCMC.propagateState(Unknown Source)
at beast.core.MCMC.doLoop(Unknown Source)
at beast.core.MCMC.run(Unknown Source)
at beast.app.BeastMCMC.run(Unknown Source)
at beast.app.beastapp.BeastMain.<init>(Unknown Source)
at beast.app.beastapp.BeastMain.main(Unknown Source)
... 6 more
It keeps happening. I have tried to run it on a Linux based system with 64 GB RAM and 1 TB space too. But my efforts were to no avail. Can anybody help me?