From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: default large-file-warning-threshold Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 00:19:59 +0100 Message-ID: <878uismg2o.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <21606.10799.112099.788101@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <1753218.Ot8JCqssfN@descartes> <546AABCF.8030705@cs.ucla.edu> <9xioico2nm.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83k32s9zm5.fsf@gnu.org> <547A4A1B.9060807@cs.ucla.edu> <20141130101201.3a2625e6@forcix> <547B4285.8070901@cs.ucla.edu> <83wq6c8s47.fsf@gnu.org> <547B9127.2080508@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417389657 16753 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2014 23:20:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 23:20:57 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 01 00:20:50 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1XvDnN-0006pb-Cl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 00:20:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52089 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvDnM-0005yL-VC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:20:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47541) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvDmu-0005xL-Af for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:20:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvDmo-0001qq-EZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:20:20 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42328) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvDmo-0001qk-7r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:20:14 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XvDmn-0006VL-9b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 00:20:13 +0100 Original-Received: from 129.red-88-10-128.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([88.10.128.129]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 00:20:13 +0100 Original-Received: from ofv by 129.red-88-10-128.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 00:20:13 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.red-88-10-128.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lwVKY6V3MRbwr8A9rZgdAyNHWuo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:178548 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: [snip] > If we were conservative and warned about files larger than 1/8 of > physical memory, my circa-2011 8-GiB work desktop would warn about > files larger than 1 GiB, and my circa-2005 512-MiB laptop would warn > about files larger than 64 MiB, and both numbers sound about right. The impact of visiting large files is not only about raw byte count. Depending on Emacs configuration (active major/minor modes, etc) operating on a large file can be impractical even for a high-end modern machine.