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Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:

> >>>>> "Kin" == Kin Cho <kin@neoscale.com> writes:
> 
>   Kin> Hi,
> 
>   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?

> Try it locally. You would still have the same problem. 

Manually using scp works fine.

-kin

> There is essentially no way around this, other than bad hacks, like
> splitting the file up into two. 
> 
> Phil