[gdal-dev] error allocatint [sic] destination buffer

[Matt Wilkie]

Hi Even,

I have 4gb of ram on this machine and task manager reported max usage
was around 2gb. I wasn't using gdal_merge because in the past that
hasn't produced a seamless mosaic. That was some years ago though so I
should probably try again.

I tried again specifying 300 instead of 500 for memory usage and it 
worked, topping out at 2.9gb of ram usage according to sysinternals 
Process Explorer. So I'm guessing that the first time the 2gb figure I 
was seeing in ram usage was what gdal was already using, not what it 
asked for and failed to get.

thanks,

matt wilkie
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Even Rouault wrote:
> The only idea I have is pretty obvious and I guess you'd already have it, you 
> probably require more memory than available. The --config GDAL_CACHEMAX 
> 500 -wm 500 options require at least 1 GB. Otherwise it's a more subtle bug. 
> Unfortunately it's not very practical to try to reproduce it as your input 
> datasets are pretty big to download.
> 
> I've downloaded the first two files and observed that they are at the same 
> resolution and projection so you could probably use gdal_merge.py instead 
> 
>