[GRASS-user] v.in.ascii : ERROR: write sidx

[Markus Metz]

Le Jeune Yann wrote:

[...]
> ERROR: write sidx: wrong node position in file
> (Fri Sep 27 00:44:28 2013) Command finished (45 min 59 sec)
>
> I have some disk space, but i looked at my system monitor and my RAM went to
> SWAP (i have only 16 Go RAM, 15 Go SWAP) The swap don't seems to have been
> totally used (but at least half) and i have not in front of my PC when the
> error occurred.

You can try to set the environment variable GRASS_VECTOR_LOWMEM with

export GRASS_VECTOR_LOWMEM=1

This will substantially reduce memory requirements when building
topology, particularly for points. You will need a bit of free disk
space where your grassdata are located.

HTH,

Markus M

>
> I will try this again with more RAM.
>
> Thanks for your answers.
>
> yann
>
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> 2013/9/26 Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>
>>
>> Yann wrote:
>> > The command was :
>> > v.in.ascii -z input=${FILE} output=${NAME_OUT} separator="${FS}" z=3
>> > --overwrite
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> just to note -- the {curly} brackets do nothing to
>> protect from spaces in filenames in this situation,
>> "double" quotes should be used for that.
>>
>> the curly brackets protect the variable name, not its
>> contents, so are mostly useful for when a letter,
>> number, or "_" follows the variable name.
>>
>> I actually think it is dangerous to use the curly
>> brackets because it tricks people into thinking they
>> are protected when they are not.
>>
>>
>>
>> regards,
>> Hamish
>>
>
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