From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: gnus, Maximum buffer size exceeded Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:11:35 +0300 Message-ID: <83egjowxu0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <58E42147-D3FE-41B0-B976-0057BDF4FFC2@gmail.com> <83pp3i2hvi.fsf@gnu.org> <83oaj22g72.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4i41z4l.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1438330325 7073 80.91.229.3 (31 Jul 2015 08:12:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 08:12:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 31 10:11:57 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZL5Q3-00011p-Fb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 10:11:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43497 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZL5Q2-0007nx-E9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 04:11:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59471) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZL5Ps-0007nr-Ft for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 04:11:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZL5Pp-00062n-9Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 04:11:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:38121) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZL5Pp-00061b-0k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 04:11:41 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NSC00L00EDDST00@mtaout25.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:07:39 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NSC00HHHEKRM240@mtaout25.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:07:39 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106164 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 03:46:33 -0400 > > I wouldn't encourage people to use it: it increases the memory usage > of Emacs (and hence slows it down by eating up your caches more > quickly), but only increases the maximum buffer size by a fairly > small amount. 2GB vs 512MB doesn't sound like "fairly small amount" to me, more like a factor of 4 and 1.5GB of absolute increment, not a small deal. I agree that a 64-bit build is better (and spent some non-trivial effort myself making that work at the time), but I don't agree with discouraging users of 32-bit systems from using the wide-int build, especially if switching to a different system is not an easy alternative.