[GRASS-user] G_calloc problem

[Hamish]

Kishore wrote:
> r.surf.idw and v.surf.bspline were working fine for me till last week.
> But now it reports the following error
>
> ERROR: G_calloc unable to allocate 584928756 * 8 bytes
> 
> Can anyone help me on this?

It means you don't have enough memory and it can't allocate any more.

> And one more thing, methods like v.to.rast and some more were very fast
> but now they are very slow. I am unable to understand what could be the
> problem?

check 'g.region -p'

your region will be set to be too many rows x columns. try to keep it
smaller than say 20000 x 20000 (but 2000x2000 might be a typical value).


Hamish