Move address level config into settings/

[nominatim.git] / docs / admin / Faq.md

diff --git a/docs/admin/Faq.md b/docs/admin/Faq.md
index 46da7e21ba0b8384e9d3ff8c38804124a9cf6f3e..1e874c789bf5b210985a542080ecd41829590fe0 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/admin/Faq.md
+++ b/docs/admin/Faq.md
@@ -71,6 +71,15 @@ and recompile (`cmake .. && make`).
 Reinstall the nominatim functions with `setup.php --create--functions`
 and check for any errors, e.g. a missing `nominatim.so` file.
 
+### I see the error: "ERROR: mmap (remap) failed"
+
+This may be a simple out-of-memory error. Try reducing the memory used
+for `--osm2pgsql-cache`. Also make sure that overcommitting memory is
+allowed: `cat /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory` should print 0 or 1.
+
+If you are using a flatnode file, then it may also be that the underlying
+filesystem does not fully support 'mmap'. A notable candidate is virtualbox's
+vboxfs.
 
 ### The website shows: "Could not get word tokens"
 
@@ -93,6 +102,14 @@ However, you can solve this the quick and dirty way by commenting out that line
     sudo systemctl restart httpd
 
 
+### "must be an array or an object that implements Countable" warning in /usr/share/pear/DB.php
+
+As reported starting PHP 7.2. This external DB library is no longer maintained and will be replaced in future Nominatim versions. In the meantime you'd have to manually change the line near 774 from
+`if (!count($dsn)) {` to  `if (!$dsn && !count($dsn))`. [More details](https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim/issues/1184)
+
+
+
+
 ### Website reports "DB Error: insufficient permissions"
 
 The user the webserver, e.g. Apache, runs under needs to have access to the Nominatim database. You can find the user like [this](https://serverfault.com/questions/125865/finding-out-what-user-apache-is-running-as), for default Ubuntu operating system for example it's `www-data`.