[OSM-newbies] You are out of memory.

[Andy Robinson]

On 17/02/2008, Terra Frost <terrafrost at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to load a 4.93GB OSM file and get the following message:
>
> You are out of memory.  Strange things may happen.
> Please restart JOSM and load smaller data sets.
>
> Do I need to have 4.93GB available RAM in order to open a OSM file of that
> size?
>

Now thats almost certainly far too big a file to open with JOSM. You
can give JOSM more memory to run with, eg:
java.exe -jar -Xmx512M josm-latest.jar will make availble to JOSM
512MB of memory.

Cheers

Andy