Thanks Greg for your help about speeding things up.
But speed is the least of my problems.
I wouldn't mind waiting 72 hours if it gets the job done.
But even with this statement:
gdal_retile --config GDAL_CACHEMAX 4000-v -s_srs EPSG:28992 -of ECW -ps
17335 16000 -targetDir tiles large.ecw
I get
You said you have 8 GB RAM, and gdal_translate was using only 2 GB
RAM, and your specific question was Do I need to set some settings
to speed things up?. Yes, you should increase the amount of RAM
gdal_translate makes available to GDAL_CACHEMAX. For example,
gdal_translate --config
I've been in contact with Christian the author of gdal_retile and he told me
this problem is in the main GDAL library.
He also suggested using some of the other GDAL tools to see if the problem
persists.
So I started using gdal_translate to copy my ecw to a new ecw using this
statement:
It is my understanding that the default is
gdal_translate --config GDAL_CACHEMAX 40 ...
which equates to 40 MB of memory.
If you want to allow gdal_translate to use say 2 GB of memory for
GDAL_CACHEMAX, enter
gdal_translate --config GDAL_CACHEMAX 2000 ...
In my experience, increasing
