Different run time for the same input with the same resource allocation

[amnghn]

Hi,
Thanks for this great piece of software.

I am using EDTA for multiple genomes with various sizes. For two of the largest genomes, the initial allocated time (4 days) was not enough, and the job ran out of time. After allocating more time for the second trial, the EDTA run finished faster than the previous run! I did not change any of the input files, CPU, and memory allocation. I am wondering if there is any reason for this. The output of the second run looks normal to me, and I don't see any error in the log file.

Here is the code I use:

EDTA.pl --threads 16 --cds $cds --genome $genome --repeatmasker /path_to/RepeatMasker --repeatmodeler /path_to/RepeatModeler --sensitive 1 --force 0 --anno 1

I would be grateful if you could clarify if this could be a problem.