r.surf.contour in 5.0beta2 broken

[Jeff P. Hollenbeck]

I can confirm that r.surf.contour seems to be broken on Linux platform as
well.

On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Justin Hickey wrote:

> Hello all
> 
> I recently posted that r.surf.contour in grass5.0beta2 had problems on our SGI
> Origin 2000. It was using up memory (over 512 MB) and finally crashing with an
> out of memory message. Today I ran the command in fast mode, which is supposed
> to be more memory intensive, and it ran without taking up hardly any memory at
> all. Furthermore, using the same raster contour map on a SGI Indy (with 64 MB
> RAM) running grass4.2, the fast mode finished in about 15 minutes. On the
> 5.0beta2 system it took over 2 and a half hours!! Not only did it take 900%
> longer but the resulting map was empty.
> 
> Has anyone else had a similar experience?
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Jazzman (a.k.a. Justin Hickey)  e-mail: jhickey at hpcc.nectec.or.th
> High Performance Computing Center
> National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC)
> Bangkok, Thailand
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