On 07/12/11 07:36, Kai Krueger wrote: > If you are intending to only update the diffs every week or less (as opposed > to minutely, hourly or daily), you might want to consider simply doing a > fresh import every week. If you have sufficient ram, then you can use the > non-slim mode, otherwise you could consider the slim mode with the --drop > option. Both are considerably faster than the normal slim mode import.
this is what I want to avoid, as a full import took me 5 days, maintaining a considerable IO load (and thus a lot of waiting processes) during this period. > Applying diffs with osm2pgsql is orders of magnitude slower per element than > the initial import. Which makes a full import faster even for moderately > short periods of diff application. Where the change-over lies exactly, > probably depends somewhat on the hardware, but applying a weeks diffs will > probably take a few days. oh, I see. thanks... _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev