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: maximum buffer size exceeded Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:44:44 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188718837 14386 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2007 07:40:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 07:40:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 02 09:40:37 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 1IRk4M-00073X-A3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 09:40:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IRk4L-0000dz-5z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:40:29 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.albasani.net!feeder.erje.net!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: q2SNWP5iY7eSCCTxJdDL6w.user.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:HKuh41+jjNBvuXhDkPz5p/6Ulbw= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (windows-nt) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151561 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:47084 Archived-At: 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. How can I increase the buffer? Ideally, I would finish my downloading; my mailbox will be about 530 MiB and then I will compress it and save it as a backup. And then I can delete mail. Any help? On http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Buffers.html#index-buffer-size_002c-maximum-1081 I read bad news: ``buffer's size cannot be larger than some maximum, which is defined by the largest buffer position representable by the Emacs integer data type. This is because Emacs tracks buffer positions using that data type. For 32-bit machines, the largest buffer size is 256 megabytes.'' That's pretty much how large my INBOX is. Just thought of asking some opinions. I suppose I will just have save my mail in three INBOXes.