Thanks for your answers. Yes, this is a 64bits OS.

2010/11/27 Markus Metz <[email protected]>:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Pierre Roudier
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I am trying to load a pretty big shapefile on GRASS (6Mb +, 211621
>> features)  using v.in.ogr, but each attempt fails at the 'break
>> boundaries'' stage (at 98%!):
>>
>> GRASS 7.0.svn (NZTM2000):~ > v.in.ogr
>> dsn=~/Documents/DATA/LCDB2/ni_nzmg.shp out=ni_lcdb2 --o
>> Projection of input dataset and current location appear to match
>> Layer: ni_nzmg
>> Counting polygons for 211621 features...
>> Importing map 211621 features...
>>  100%
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>> Building topology for vector map <ni_lcdb2_...@ni>...
>> Registering primitives...
>> 334611 primitives registered
>> 18459167 vertices registered
>> Number of nodes: 211681
>> Number of primitives: 334611
>> Number of points: 0
>> Number of lines: 0
>> Number of boundaries: 334611
>> Number of centroids: 0
>> Number of areas: -
>> Number of isles: -
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>> WARNING: Cleaning polygons, result is not guaranteed!
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>> Break polygons:
>>  100%
>>  100%
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>> Remove duplicates:
>>  100%
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>> Break boundaries:
>> ERROR: G_calloc: unable to allocate 50 * 8 bytes of memory at
>>       allocation.c:82
>>
>> The shp loads without any problems on QGIS.
>>
>
>> OS: Opensuse 11.3, with 7Gb RAM.
> Is this a 64 bit OS?
>
> I have previously successfully imported larger shapefiles, more than
> double in size: >400,000 areas, >40 million vertices, peak memory
> consumption was close to 4GB. The import of your shapefile would
> approximately require about 2GB of memory, which should not be a
> problem with 7GB available, as long as it's all 64 bit and not 32 bit.
>
> Markus M
>
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