[Qgis-user] Very slow performance with large SHP files, with over 200k objects

[Noli Sicad]

Is this problem in Windows, Mac OS X or Linux?

Noli

On 3/7/11, Thiru Chandran <tiruchirapalli at gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks like QGIS is not able to handle very large SHP files. Here we are
> talking about SHP files with over 200K polygons and the one that we are over
> 500K objects.
>
> Even to open, it takes quite a long, say  more than 40 seconds.
>
> The issue is with search, if you do any attribute search then, its as good
> as 5 mins to respond.
>
> I have seen some earlier threads complaining/having the same problem.. well
> any patch / progress on this?
>
> this is a critical requirement in one of the application and without the
> performance, we really cant make it.
>
> hope to see some light on this ... can we expect this in v 1.7?
>
>
> Richard.
>
> Northern Territory
> Australia
>