id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc 2591,NetCDF Driver should read/write data in stripes instead of the whole array,rsignell,warmerdam,"When I tried to convert a 20000x15000 file using the GMT driver (which writes NetCDF with Z as a 1D variable) it works fine, but the NetCDF driver gives an ""Out of memory"" error: {{{ gdal_translate psdem_2005_geo.tif -of netcdf psdem_2005.nc Input file size is 20000, 15000 0ERROR 2: CPLMalloc(): Out of memory allocating 1200000000 bytes. }}} It looks like the NetCDF driver is trying to allocate memory for the entire data grid being processed instead of reading/writing by column, row or chunk. This should be fixed, to allow processing of much larger grids on machines with limited memory. ",defect,closed,normal,1.5.3,GDAL_Raster,1.5.0,normal,fixed,netcdf,dnadeau