From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dbast0s@yahoo.com.br (Daniel C. Bastos) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: maximum buffer size exceeded Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:53:42 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <84k5r6z595.fsf@blade3.toledo.com> References: <7bwsv7e3h1.fsf@xoc2.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188931240 24957 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2007 18:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 18:40:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 04 20:40:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ISdKI-0001tZ-5U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:40:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISdKG-0003hZ-Az for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:40:36 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!zen.net.uk!dedekind.zen.co.uk!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 8O8Y7xiSuO+NrJqkQ15qMw.user.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:sGgMdzTmDeAc5narpIzg+qg7fq4= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (berkeley-unix) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151683 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47207 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > Daniel C. Bastos wrote: > >> I'm dealing with an INBOX of size 252 MiB and I expect it to double on >> my next mail downloads. I use VM under the GNU emacs. > > Out of interest, do you find this usable? I find VM intolerably slow > (on fast machines) with mail folders larger than a few MB. Perhaps > it's my font-locking which is to blame... I have only days of experience with VM, and only hours with a mailbox that big; I disabled backups to avoid emacs saving buffers all the time which was a slow task and has nothing to do with VM. Sorting and summary generation was quick enough.