[OSM-dev] Osmosis: 20% performance increase with java -server

[Lambertus]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     I  was able to run Osmosis tasks between 10% and 20% faster by  
> adding the JVM flag "-server" to the osmosis startup script (that's  
> on a Sun Java6 implementation). I don't really know what it does but  
> it seems to be a good thing. I also tried the IcedTea JVM but that  
> was (marginally) slower than the Sun Java6 one.
> 
> Bye
> Frederik
> 
Nice, every speedup is welcome.

BTW. have you seen my 'benchmark' results on the Osmosis\examples page?
Maybe you can try some different buffer configurations on your quad core 
too see if that produces better results than on my dual core.