[mkgmap-dev] Memory limits for mkgmap and splitter

Wed Aug 5 18:18:34 BST 2009

>> old splitter: 370 sec
>> new splitter: 470 sec
>
> Hmm, I'm surprised the new version is taking longer actually. I didn't
> benchmark my most recent changes so perhaps I've done something silly.
> It should be the same speed or faster than the old. Thanks for the
> statistics, I'll take a look and see what I can do to get it back up
> to speed.

I've just run another benchmark against united_kingdom.osm.bz2 (170MB compressed, 
2.1GB uncompressed, 9,500,000 nodes). When running against the compressed 
file I get the following results:

old splitter: 590 sec
new splitter: 536 sec

This is more in line with what I'd expect. Almost all the time savings come 
from the first stage (calculating the areas.list file), while the second 
stage takes almost identical times in both splitters.

Can you please tell me exactly what parameters you used to run both the old 
and the new splitters to get your results? Would it be possible to get hold 
of the osm file you used to run your test against? I'd be interested in replicating 
the poor performance so I can try to fix it.

Regards,
Chris