[OSM-talk] Slim mode in osm2pgsql and out of memory error

[Stephan Knauss]

On 29.08.2011 17:47, Andrei wrote:
> Are we trying to do the impossible by importing the whole planet with
> just 12Gb of RAM?  Is there some trickery we can use to do the import
> on this machine, or maybe another method we can use for the import?

A while ago I did import the planet on my windows machine (i7 920, 12G). 
I had used -C 3800. So you could give it a bit more ram.
I have no exact data, but I think it did run for two or three days.

Other steps you did look fine. If the point of your out-of-memory does 
correlate with the -C option is out of my knowledge. In case you do not 
get any better answer you could try it with this setting.

Stephan