[GRASS-user] Processing Time for Vector Import w/OGR

[Markus Metz]

Rich Shepard wrote:
> I'm importing the water bodies theme using v.in.ogr. There are 89,173
> nodes and 99,129 primitives and boundaries. The process cleans polygons,
> breaks polygons, and removes duplicates very quickly. Then it seems to 
> take
> forever (more than 40 minutes in one attempt) while breaking boundaries.
>
> This is on a moderately fast AMD-powered machine. Top shows two v.in.ogr
> processes (one running 98 minutes, the other 12 minutes) consuming 
> about 98%
> of the CPU and about 23% of 2G RAM each process.
>
> Is this normal?
Unfortunately yes, better in grass7, see ticket #426
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/426

Markus M