Hi,
first problem is probably thej ava runtime parameter:
-xmx1000m should be -Xmx1000m to be correct, and better something like -Xmx1500m or higher if your system allows that.
Henning is right, --max-areas=1 tells splitter to re-read the input file for each area that it creates. This will be very slow.

Gerd

> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:44:18 +0100
> From: osm@aighes.de
> To: mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] splitter
>
> Hi, you should remove --max-areas=1. This isn't useful, if you want to
> split your inputdata into several smaller parts ;)
>
> Henning
>
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