[GRASS-dev] Re: big region r.watershed

2008-10-13 Thread Markus Metz
Hamish wrote: Markus Metz wrote: The original version uses very little memory, so assuming that GRASS runs today on systems where at least 500MB RAM are available I changed the parameters for the seg mode, more data are kept in memory, speeding up the seg mode. Looking at other modules

[GRASS-dev] Re: big region r.watershed

2008-10-13 Thread Hamish
Markus Metz wrote: Right now I don't want to introduce a new option to give the user control over how much memory is used (be it MB memory, number of rows or percent of the map) because I want to keep all options of r.watershed.fast identical to the original version. adding new options is ok

Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: big region r.watershed

2008-10-13 Thread Glynn Clements
Markus Metz wrote: Right now I don't want to introduce a new option to give the user control over how much memory is used (be it MB memory, number of rows or percent of the map) because I want to keep all options of r.watershed.fast identical to the original version. There's no reason to

Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: big region r.watershed

2008-10-11 Thread Glynn Clements
Hamish wrote: and other modules like r.in.xyz have percent= (0-100) for how much of the map to keep in memory at once. I'm wondering if it would be worth adding a switch to r.in.xyz to indicate that the points have been pre-sorted in descending order of their Y coordinate (which can be done

[GRASS-dev] Re: big region r.watershed

2008-10-10 Thread Hamish
Markus Metz wrote: The original version uses very little memory, so assuming that GRASS runs today on systems where at least 500MB RAM are available I changed the parameters for the seg mode, more data are kept in memory, speeding up the seg mode. Looking at other modules using the segment