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

[Stephan Holl]

Hello Markus,

On Thu, 18 May 2006 18:29:18 +0200 Markus Neteler <neteler at itc.it>
wrote:

> 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).

Second that.

Had that with a large OCI-dataset all the time and was wondering why
this works on one maschine (1GB RAM) and not on anotherone (256MB
RAM)...
 
> 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.

I would also like to see such a feature. I have run that through
valgrind, perhaps someone more knowledgeable could have a look at it? 
I have provided it here:

http://www.gdf-hannover.de/~holl/tmp/valgrind_v.in.ogr.log.pid26607

Best regards

	Stephan

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