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Re: gnus, Maximum buffer size exceeded


From: Jason Hunter
Subject: Re: gnus, Maximum buffer size exceeded
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 01:36:32 +0200

2015-07-30 8:52 GMT+02:00 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
>>> 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).
>

Thanks for following up on this, cause I really need help;)

Ok, so, I'm using emacs on ubuntu-14.10 and this compile time flag has
not been added then?

My file is only like 400Mio.



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