[mkgmap-dev] mkgmap (with routing) telling me about "Directory overflow"

Fri Dec 12 14:50:41 GMT 2008

On Dec 12, 2008, at 15:12, Hanno Böck wrote:
> I wanted to try out the routing version of mkgmap (r806, osm2mp from  
> svn). I
> tried the baden wuerttemberg file for testing (from  
> download.geofabrik.de).
>
> At first I got some message that sounded like not enough memory, so  
> I added
> some -Xmx parameter. Then I got:
>
> hanno at libertalia ~/osm/routing $ java -Xmx1500M -jar mkgmap.jar -- 
> route
> bawue.mp
> SCHWERWIEGEND (BlockManager): overflowed directory with max block  
> 65534,
> current=65535
> Directory overflow.  This is a bug in mkgmap
>
>
> Maybe this file is just too big?

Probably. Maybe passing --block-size=1024 (instead of the default 512)  
will help?

Cheers
Robert