[GRASS-dev] v.in.ogr eats all memory

[Markus Neteler]

Hi,

importing a big SHAPE file, it appeared that most
of the operating was shifted to swap space (Linux). I
had to reboot the machine (no remote login, not even
caplock worked).

Question: Can we add some test to avoid that more
than xx percent of the memory are used? There won't
be any hot plugin of extra RAM, so v.in.ogr should
exit with memory allocation error. I just wonder why
the kernel doesn't take care.

Markus