[gdal-dev] Memory fragmentation and memory consumption when warping with GCPs

[Joaquim Luis]

> Joaquim,
> 
> OK.  Well, generally speaking GDAL should allocate relatively little
> memory just on loading the DLL (and perhaps calling GDALAllRegister()).

> So I don't know why you are seeing the problem you see.

Frank,
It's ok. I was not expecting an easy answer but I think this issue worth reporting.
Anyway, the fragmentation (note that there is not a total free memory reduction) is probably
originated by all the gdal.dll dependencies that one can see with the Dependency Walker being
loaded by the gdal.dll


> Does this aspect really have anything to do with the number of GCPs?
> Are you using the GDAL warp algorithm?

Oh yes, with 2500 GCPs I can do the warping. And yes I'm using the
GDAL warp algorithm (the mex is more or less a copy of gdaltransform)

Thanks

Joaquim