[mkgmap-dev] Splitter output files are nearly empty

Wed May 4 06:44:08 BST 2011

On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 11:12:25PM +0200, Lambertus wrote:
>Well I wanted to run multiple processes at the same time to utilize the 
>quadcore CPU better and reduce processing time

The processing time probably won't be reduced if the machine starts 
swapping. Like Thorsten pointed out, it is good to leave some "breathing 
room" for the computer.

>>I am not sure if the --cache option still works. It was sort of 
>>superceded or made unnecessary by the Protobuf input format support.
>>
>Oh, if it's not working anymore then I assume it will ignore the 
>option. Or is this too simple thinking?

I do not know. I never used the --cache option myself. One more 
possibility (a wild guess) is that the format of the cache directory 
changed and you had some old-format stuff there that was being 
misinterpreted.

	Marko