From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: gnus, Maximum buffer size exceeded Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 02:52:03 -0400 Message-ID: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1438239158 6044 80.91.229.3 (30 Jul 2015 06:52:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 06:52:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 30 08:52:29 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 1ZKhhd-0002lQ-2W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 08:52:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38268 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZKhhc-0006GC-8k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 02:52:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50920) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZKhhR-0006Fy-Pv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 02:52:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZKhhO-0006Z1-K3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 02:52:17 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54840) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZKhhO-0006Xz-D6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 02:52:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZKhhM-0002bl-Pu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 08:52:12 +0200 Original-Received: from 93.49.222.233 ([93.49.222.233]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 08:52:12 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 93.49.222.233 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 08:52:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 93.49.222.233 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:b2nzJ/Iq0vSA7NvoPyI5uCmlPVA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:106145 Archived-At: >> So, there's no way I could increase this limit on my 32-bit system? > Emacs 25 will support a configure time option to extend this to 2GB > (or maybe even 4GB, depending on the OS). Otherwise, no, there's no way. As Glenn points out, this option was actually added to Emacs-24 already. And in practice, the real practical limit can end up lower than "2GB or 4GB" (because Emacs additionally needs space to keep other data, and/or to move part of the buffer around). Stefan