Re: tramp: Maximum buffer size exceeded

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Kin Cho wrote:

> Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
>>>>>>>"Kin" == Kin Cho <kin@neoscale.com> writes:
>>  Kin> tramp (2.0.35) seems to have trouble with large file size.
>>
>>  Kin> I was trying to copy /large-file (210 Meg) from foobar to a
>>  Kin> local directory.
>>
>>  Kin> Perhaps there is another tramp method which doesn't require
>>  Kin> first fetching a remote file to a local temp file?
>>
>>  Kin> Thanks.
>>
>>  Kin> -kin
>>
>>  Kin> tramp: Fetching /scp:root@foobar:/large-file to tmp file
>>  Kin> /tmp/tramp.61036yh...done tramp: Inserting local temp file
>>  Kin> `/tmp/tramp.61036yh'...  setq: Maximum buffer size exceeded
>> 
>>This is not a problem with tramp per se, but with emacs. It has a
>>maximum buffer size (which is I think something like 2^26
>>characters). Your 210 meg file is too large for it. 
> 
> But scp is an out-of-band method, why does tramp has to process
> the file content in emacs?


It has to insert the file contents into a buffer so you can edit it.


>>Try it locally. You would still have the same problem. 
> 
> Manually using scp works fine.

The copy succeeded.  The failure occurred trying to insert the local

copy of the file into an Emacs buffer.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers