[Gdal-dev] v.in.ogr memory leak?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
> I was running v.in.ogr on grass61 (cygwin) on a shapefile that has a ~200mb
> .shp file and a ~ 2gb .dbf file, and I watched in horror as my memory usage
> his about 1.5 gb and shortly thereafter got an out-of-memory error (so the
> import failed).  Have newer version of gdal/ogr solved this problem (since
> I'm using cygwin, I'm hesitant to try a compile 'lest I break a currently
> working grass install).

Jonathan,

You seem to be assuming the leak is in OGR not v.in.ogr itself or even
the grass libraries!

You might want to try an ogr2ogr on the same file and see what happens.

Best regards,
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