[GRASS-user] Lack of memory importing .shp file

[Rich Shepard]

   Haven't before experienced this one. There are 4G of memory on this
desktop and v.import choked on a large .shp file (all files consume ~1G on
disk):

ERROR: G_realloc: unable to allocate 264880028 bytes of memory at lib/vector/Vlib/snap.c:252
ERROR: Unable to import OGR datasource </home/rshepard/data/grassdata/wash-state-data/land-use/landuse10.shp>

   With no other major user application processes running top shows 2G+ free
memory so I'm puzzled why 265M could not be allocated.

   Any ideas?

Rich