[GRASS-user] Large import runs out of memory

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2017, Stefan Blumentrath wrote:

> Please try GRASS_VECTOR_LOWMEM environment variable:
>
> GRASS_VECTOR_LOWMEM [vectorlib] If the environment variable
> GRASS_VECTOR_LOWMEM exists, memory consumption will be reduced when
> building vector topology support structures. Recommended for creating
> large vectors.
>
> See: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass72/manuals/variables.html

Stefan,

   Thank you for the information. I _think_ I knew of this variable many
years ago and I will be sure to export it from the shell.

Much appreciated,

Rich