id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 693 Buffer operation uses excessive amount of memory wonder geos-devel@… "When doing a buffer operation on a more complex linestring, the memory consumption rises to many hundreds of megabytes, eventually exhausting RAM and locking up the system completely. SAGA builds the same buffer with very low memory usage. Please see the attached example code for a reproducible example. Originally reported in QGIS: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/10356" defect closed major 3.6.1 Default 3.4.2 Unassigned duplicate