Re: maximum buffer size exceeded

[Daniel C. Bastos]

Glenn Morris <rgm+news@stanford.edu> 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.