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Re: tramp: Maximum buffer size exceeded
From: |
Kin Cho |
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Re: tramp: Maximum buffer size exceeded |
Date: |
29 Aug 2003 08:59:46 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
> >>>>> "Kin" == Kin Cho <kin@neoscale.com> writes:
>
> Kin> Hi,
>
> Kin> tramp (2.0.35) seems to have trouble with large file size.
>
> Kin> I was trying to copy /large-file (210 Meg) from foobar to a
> Kin> local directory.
>
> Kin> Perhaps there is another tramp method which doesn't require
> Kin> first fetching a remote file to a local temp file?
>
> Kin> Thanks.
>
> Kin> -kin
>
> Kin> tramp: Fetching /scp:root@foobar:/large-file to tmp file
> Kin> /tmp/tramp.61036yh...done tramp: Inserting local temp file
> Kin> `/tmp/tramp.61036yh'... setq: Maximum buffer size exceeded
>
>
> This is not a problem with tramp per se, but with emacs. It has a
> maximum buffer size (which is I think something like 2^26
> characters). Your 210 meg file is too large for it.
But scp is an out-of-band method, why does tramp has to process
the file content in emacs?
> Try it locally. You would still have the same problem.
Manually using scp works fine.
-kin
> There is essentially no way around this, other than bad hacks, like
> splitting the file up into two.
>
> Phil