[GRASSLIST:4349] Re: PNG memory usage

[Gordon Keith]

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:56, cheg01 at attbi.com wrote:
> I'm trying to understand how the PNG driver uses memory. I would like
> to save full 10 meter resolution images of 1:100000 quads in
> truecolor. I have gd 2.0. I'm running Solaris 8 Sparc with 384 megs
> memory and 512 megs swap.


> d.his h_map=geol i_map=aspect
> PNG runs until 30% complete, then Size exceeds 880 megs
> ERROR: G_malloc: out of memory

As a work around, if you have root access, you can create a file in the 
file system and add it to the swap space available. For details see: 
man swap

Roughly the commands are:
su
mkfile 1024m /var/swapfile
swap -a /var/swapfile

gives you an extra 1GB of swap space.

swap -d /var/swapfile
releases that file from swap so you can delete it if you want the disk 
space back.

The swapfile can be anywhere on a local disk or nfs mount, but the 
faster the better.

Regards
Gordon

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Gordon Keith
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Marine Acoustics
CSIRO Marine Research
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