[GRASSLIST:3220] Re: r.proj gripe

[Eric G. Miller]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 06:10:57PM -0800, Len Coop wrote:
> Thanks Eric,
> 
> As mentioned in my previous posting,
> Keith's suggestion solved my gripe, by using swap to expand memory past
> any amount required by r.proj. However, it would be much better for r.proj, upon
> running out of memory, to die
> gracefully (and not hang a Linux box!) with some kind of suggestion
> to expand memory or swap. Knowing this months ago would have saved me
> much trouble. Thanks for the suggestions.

That's Linux's fault, not r.proj.  If the kernel doesn't say "No more
memory", then the program can't know.  More recent kernels will start
killing processes (I know, I've seen it -- it remembers the offender
as well).

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>