[talk-au] josm "out of memory" error

[Gordon Smith]

On Feb 19, 2008 4:39 PM, Kim Hawtin <kim.hawtin at adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
> Ian Sergeant wrote:
> > Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> >
> >> object was to load australia.osm (266.8MB)
> >>
> >> setting the size to 512, 1024 too small
> >> 2048 swapped out everything and ran very very slow
> >
> > i'm glad we have mapped enough of Australia so that you can't load it all
> > into 1.5GB of memory.
> >
> > lets keep going..
>
> is that worth pursuing this?
> i have a box with 4GB of ram in ... ?
> i suppose wed be stuck with 2GB per process limits ... hmmm
> perhaps a 64bit install and 64bit java?

FYI,  I loaded it on a MacBook Pro (OSX 10.5.2) with 4 GB memory using:

   java -Xms512m -Xmx2048m -jar ~/Applications/josm-snapshot-546.jar
~/Documents/maps/20080206-australia.osm

It's a tad slow though :-)


Gordon