[Geocoding] Import run for Europe

[Simon Nuttall]

Using our installation script mentioned at:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/geocoding/2013-April/000779.html

I started a Europe wide import on a 4 CPU processor machine with 16GB RAM.

That was 13 days ago, on 16 April, and by 21 April the log file said:

GRANT SELECT ON place_classtype_natural_islet TO "www-data";drop index
idx_placex_classtype;#   Done special phrases Sun Apr 21 20:29:08 BST
2013
#       Nominatim website created Sun Apr 21 20:29:09 BST 2013

and a week later it is still running, saying:

Processing: Node(307016k 2.2k/s) Way(39382k 0.09k/s) Relation(118210
14.94/s)NOTICE:  Self-intersection at or near point 52.2009 56.0652
CONTEXT:  PL/pgSQL function "place_insert" line 28 at IF
COPY place, line 3: "R  1076747 boundary        administrative
"name"=>"Новогорское"   8       \N      \N      \N      \N      \N
         SRID=4326;POLYG..."
Processing: Node(307016k 2.2k/s) Way(39382k 0.09k/s) Relation(118300 14.95/s)


I can't tell how much longer this is going to run. Munin charts are
showing lots of I/O activity but relatively low CPU activity. How can
I tell how near it is to completion?

Also its not clear to me when the automatic updating phase starts. How
do I know if it does, and how long should it take?

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Simon Nuttall

Route Master, CycleStreets.net