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Number of cpu is not adapted for fastp tool

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Description

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Hello,
I notice that the number of cpu for fastp is not adapted. It uses more threads than expected.

Describe the solution you'd like

The --thread option is for worker threads only. Not for all threads used by the tool.

https://github.com/OpenGene/fastp/issues/169:

--thread 2 means use 2 processing worker threads.
Besides the worker threads, fastp uses one master thread, one loader thread, and one or two writer thread (depends on SE or PE).

It should be corrected.
Thank you!

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Research direction

Start by locating the nf-core module for fastp and inspect how its CPU or process setting is derived. Compare that setting with fastp's documented worker-thread behavior in issue 169; done means the module's configured CPU usage accounts for the additional fastp threads.

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Domain
bioinformatics
Issue type
Feature
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