On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavall...@faunalia.it> wrote: > Nikos Alexandris ha scritto: > >> Does it crash immediately or after a long time? It works for me in a small >> file (boundaries though, not lines) and takes forever (still running after >> 15min in a big file containing contours) but no crash. > > It is a memory error: when filled up it crashes. Obviously this does not > happen with > simpler layers.
>From the manual: "Snakes Algorithm is (asymptotically) the slowest among the algorithms presented above. Also, it requires quite a lot of memory. This means that it is not very efficient for maps with the lines consisting of many segments." Try another smoothing algorithm, e.g. chaiken. HTH, Markus M _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user