[mkgmap-dev] Increase MAXHINCR or MAX_HEAP_SECTS

Thu Feb 3 18:57:56 GMT 2011

I think the problem could be the cloudmade extracts. At least 2 years 
ago they would not work. Try with geofabrik extracts instead. (and 
austria without splitting into at least 7-8 tiles will not work anyhow).

On 03.02.2011 19:57, WanMil wrote:
> How much memory does your system have?
> If the systems starts to swap mkgmap will need multitudes of time it
> would need normally. The error message "Too many heap sections: Increase
> MAXHINCR or MAX_HEAP_SECTS." sounds like overall memory problems.
>
> Please try to reduce the -Xmx3000M. If you don't use more than 1 thread
> at least -Xmx1000M should work.
>
> WanMil
>
>> On 02/02/2011 09:07 PM, Bernhard Kuemel wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> compiling http://downloads.cloudmade.com/europe/austria/austria.osm.bz2
>>> failed: 'java -Xmx3000M -jar /usr/share/mkgmap/mkgmap.jar --route
>>> austria.osm' failed with Too many heap sections: Increase MAXHINCR or
>>> MAX_HEAP_SECTS. How can I increase that? Will it help?
>>>
>>> debians dpkg says its version 0.0.0+svn1067-1. I haven't tried the
>>> current version because that hasn't finished a smaller map after 15 mins
>>> while debians mkgmap finished in seconds.
>> Same with version 1804 after 169 minutes.
>>
>> There were also many of these messages:
>>
>> SEVERE (RoadNetwork): austria.osm: Road
>> (http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/28311585) contains zero length
>> arc at http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=&mlon=&zoom=17
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