# error: Job output file grew too large (greater than 200.0 GB)

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**Tags:** tool-help\
**Created:** [January 8, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/error-job-output-file-grew-too-large-greater-than-200-0-gb/14355 "2025-01-08T03:44:19Z")\
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Hi @Lee_Wonsik

The public Galaxy servers have significant computational resources but there are still practical computational limits. Tool can also have inherent limits but that usually has a different message. Your error is probably reporting that the data hit a processing limit on the cluster where the job is running.

Would you like to share a link to the history containing the job? We can help to do two things: check that there isn’t something technical going on and maybe also provide an alternative way to get the reads processed (potential “chunking”).

To complicated it, the [UseGalaxy.org](http://UseGalaxy.org) server is undergoing maintenance this week, so some work is temporarily throttled. I can’t tell yet if you are impacted but it seems possible. This means that once the maintenance event resolves the job might work as-is.

The last solution is to try at a different public Galaxy server. [UseGalaxy.eu](http://UseGalaxy.eu) can scale for the largest outputs and longest runtimes.

More about quota and process limits is in this topic guide: [What should I do if my data exceeds the given 250GB of storage?](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/what-should-i-do-if-my-data-exceeds-the-given-250gb-of-storage/13193). If you move to the EU server, you’ll need to request more storage space for this work and the guide explains how-to.

We can start with the tool/job review if you want. How to share is in the banner of this forum, also here → [How to get faster help with your question](https://help.galaxyproject.org/docs?topic=11469). You can post the link back as a reply, then unshare once we are done. Thanks! 👩‍🔬

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