[GRASS-user] r.watershed hangs

[Hamish]

Hardeep Singh Rai wrote:
> I was doing watershed analysis for spearfish dataset
> (spearfish_grass60data-0.1.tar.gz), and on giving command:
> 
> r.watershed elevation=elevation.dem threshhold=3 basin=raiBasin
> accumulation=raiAccu it starts processing of 5 steps. After about 20
> minutes, it completes all and throw message: "cloing maps", but do
> nothing; prompt never comes. I used it with option -m and without it.
> With both cases, "top" commands show ram or sed running with 99 usage
> of CPU. Even I waited for 12 hours, but it fail to finish. I am using
> GRASS 6.0.1 on Ubuntu.
> 
> Please suggest some solution.


It's a known bug (#3112). It gets stuck trying to make a huge set of
colormap rules for the new map. If you cancel (^C) you might find the
map was created anyway (???).

Try running with a smaller region (g.region)

I don't think it's a hard bug to fix, but no one has done it.


r.watershed bug reports:

https://intevation.de/rt/webrt?q_status=open&q_queue=grass&q_subject=r.watershed


another work-around: try the r.terraflow module. It is much more
advanced and can make watershed maps.



Hamish