[OSM-dev] osm2pgsql planet import time issues?

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Sat, 2009-01-24 14:08:14 +0100, Ivo Brodien <philotas at cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > > > The main tile server imports the data with:
> > > > $ osm2pgsql --slim -C 2100
> > >
> > > it worked with this the option above using -C 2300 - just to be sure.
> > >
> > > It took 18 hours on my machine! Quite a lot, but I don't want to
> > > complain because it worked!
> >
> > FWIW, it's never a good idea to give it more than the physical amount
> > of memory in your machine.
> 
> Thanks for the advice but I got another 2GB so in total I had 4 GB in  
> my machine. Although ubuntu recognized only 3.2 GB. I changed to a  
> server-kernel as described somewhere but it did not help. Well, for  
> now 3.2 GB are fine as well. Maybe I have to update the BIOS.

Well, with some luck, only BIOS configuration is needed to make the
chipset remap parts of the RAM to addresses greater than 4GB. Not
every BIOS/chipset combination supports that, though...

MfG, JBG

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