[Geocoding] Slowdown of osm2pgsql import

[Frans Hals]

Hi,

after way too slow success of importing planet.osm with a small Amazon
instance, I have changed to a large instance (something like 7.5 GB memory
4 EC2 Compute Units, 64-bit platform).
The nodes import started several factors faster than on the small machine.
When it reached the ways, it became very slow again, relations now is the
same.
While it started with nearly 100% CPU usage, now there is a peak of 50%, but
most of the time it is below 10%.
Has anybody experience if this is  Amazon related, or will there be much
more projection to be done on ways/rels, so it is normal?
While from the speedup I estimated that the import will be done below 24
hrs, now I'm on 2 days and a half.

Regards
Frans
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