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
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