Shptree running out of memory

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

What OS, and hardware (especially memory and swap) config do you have?
A low VM warning is a clear indication you were trying to overrun the
capabilities of the machine

gerry

IMD Listuser wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I would like to be able to use a shapefile with about 2 million point
> features in it in my mapserver application.
>
> I tried to index the shapefile with shptree with no success. The error I
> received was that virtual memory was low, then shptree crashed. Is it
> reasonable to expect shptree to be able to index this file or should I
> find another way of displaying the features?
>
> Thanks
>
> Charlie
>

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