OK, I’ll try it. Thanks for theses informations.
Matthieu

> Le 13 oct. 2017 à 12:43, Even Rouault <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> On vendredi 13 octobre 2017 10:06:56 CEST Matthieu Lefort wrote:
> > Hi list,
> > I am using ogr2ogr to load big geojson files (about 1 Go each) into
> > postgresql database. On my MacBook, (GDAL 1.11.3, released 2015/09/16),
> > although it lasts about 20 minutes for each file, this works fine. I tried
> > to do the same thing on a VPS (Debian Stretch 9.2, 8 Go RAM) but the
> > process consumes all RAM in 20 seconds before stopping (out of memory).
> > Install was made with apt-get install gdal-bin. (GDAL 2.1.2, released
> > 2016/10/24)
> >
> > Is there a way to control memory usage or to avoid at least using more
> > memory than the available one ?
> 
> Matthieu,
> 
> no, this is a known issue ( see https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/6540 
> <https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/6540> ) which would require substantial 
> changes in the geojson driver to be adressed. It needs to ingest the whole 
> file in memory currently, parse it completely, and store the resulting 
> features in RAM. So typically, you need 10 to 20 times more RAM than the file 
> size (I wouldn't expect the memory usage to be substantially different 
> between GDAL 1.11 and 2.1, but there has been indeed a small change to use 
> the MEM driver underneath)
> 
> So for now, your best chance is to try splitting the features[] array into 
> smaller files.
> 
> https://www.google.fr/search?q=splitting+geojson+files 
> <https://www.google.fr/search?q=splitting+geojson+files> points to various 
> hints on how to split geojson files.
> 
> Even
> 
> 
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