[GRASS-user] r.cost: exact meaning of percent_memory ?

[Moritz Lennert]

On 23/01/15 20:49, Markus Metz wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Moritz Lennert
> <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
>> On 22/01/15 21:12, Markus Metz wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Moritz Lennert
>>> <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> IIUC, this would mean that if I have a region of X DCELL cells, I would
>>>> need: X*8 bytes of memory, or ?
>>>
>>>
>>> No, it would need X * 3 * 8 bytes (if direction output is requested,
>>> another X * 4 bytes). Considering that you are a power user and
>>> developer, and that you do not understand the 'percent_memory' option,
>>> it is high time to change that option to the standard memory option
>>> where the user specifies the amount of memory in MB that should be
>>> used.
>>
>>
>> Yes. I do plead guilty for not haven taken the time to look at the code in
>> detail to understand, but the man page definitely does not help. If this can
>> be changed into the standard memory option, this would be great.
>
> Done in trunk r64287 and relbr70 r64288.
>
> The percent_memory option has been changed to memory (in MB) for both
> r.cost and r.walk, these modules are siblings.

Thanks Markus, efficient as always !

Moritz