> java -jar /usr/share/java/splitter-r224.jar --mapid=71200001 --max-nodes=1000000 --overlap=0 --keep-complete=true --geonames-file=osmmaps/scripts/cities/DACH.txt --description=TK-DACH-Tile --output=pbf --output-dir=build/DACH/tiles data/osm/DACH.osm.pbf

if you really execute splitter without any -Xmx parm I wonder how it gets so far ?

Ciao,
Gerd