I believe I have resolved the issue... though not completely sure of the process behind what was happening...
In looking at the memory and vm usage, it appears that the process of combining objects is not only CPU dependent, but also taxes heavily the memory and virtual memory... it must store a lot of information in the virtual memory, and then once it starts to actually combine objects, reads from VM and dumps it... this is what I can see happening at least. It took upwards of 600MB+ of VM to accomplish 2 rows of combining street data... Thanks for the insights from Miguel, Paul and Sheila... learning a little bit more about the tendencies of MI (even after 5 years of this!!)... does it ever stop??!! -- LTJG Kevin Slover, NOAA GIS Specialist/Oceanographer NOAA/National Hurricane Center/Storm Surge Unit 11691 SW 17th Street Miami FL 33165 W (305) 229-4456 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 6205
