[GRASSLIST:2735] Re: r.buffer

[Glynn Clements]

Martin du Saire wrote:

> I need to delineate a zone to encompass a 500km radius around a site. The 
> final goal is to r.patch multiple maps into this zone. When I use r.buffer 
> it generates a G_malloc error: out of memory.  My /tmp directory is 
> virtually empty.  I have lots of disk space.  I am running Grass5.0 in 
> Cygwin\Xfree86 in WindowsXT.
> 
> Any suggestions, including a way to achieve the patch without r.buffer if 
> possible?

If the boundary doesn't need to be entirely accurate, reducing the
region resolution with "g.region res=..." will probably reduce the
memory requirements.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>