[GRASSLIST:8429] Re: v.in.ogr error: G_realloc

[Hamish]

> > I was reading a large shape file:
> >
> > -rw-rw-r--    1 caumann  caumann  111771178 Apr 17 10:44 neforest.dbf
> > -rw-rw-r--    1 caumann  caumann   2355756 Apr  7  2003 neforest.sbn
> > -rw-rw-r--    1 caumann  caumann    119812 Apr  7  2003 neforest.sbx
> > -rw-rw-r--    1 caumann  caumann  746124196 Dec 10  2002 neforest.shp
> > -rw-rw-r--    1 caumann  caumann   1973924 Dec 10  2002 neforest.shx
> >
> > and got the error:
> >
> > ERROR: G_realloc: out of memory
> >
> > Can v.in.ogr not handle this size of file?

> It can be that it consumes a lot of memory. Probably you have
> to add swap.


see this message for how to add linux swap space on the fly:
  http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grassuser/2002-February/006072.html



Hamish