bug#6237: 23.2; INSUFFICIENT RESOURCES writing file via CIFS

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 11:38:35 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: 6237@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > I know nothing about Windows internals, but it would seem that some
> > downstream WinNT I/O routine can't handle 32MB or larger writes, so
> > perhaps write-region could segment the write?  The annotations hair
> > makes it hard for me to see if this is easy.
> 
> The breaking of writes into smaller chunks should be in Windows
> specific code, i.e. in w32.c:sys_write.  And that is very easy.

If you can build Emacs yourself from sources, could you please try the
following patch?  It incorporates the info I found in the git mailing
list thread pointed out by Andreas (thanks!).


=== modified file 'src/w32.c'
--- src/w32.c   2010-05-01 18:28:00 +0000
+++ src/w32.c   2010-05-22 09:33:53 +0000
@@ -5700,7 +5700,34 @@ sys_write (int fd, const void * buffer, 
     }
   else
 #endif
-    nchars = _write (fd, buffer, count);
+    {
+      /* Some networked filesystems don't like too large writes, so
+        break them into smaller chunks.  See the Comments section of
+        the MSDN documentation of WriteFile for details behind the
+        choice of the value of CHUNK below.  See also the thread
+        http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/145294
+        in the git mailing list.  */
+      const unsigned char *p = buffer;
+      const unsigned chunk = 30 * 1024 * 1024;
+
+      nchars = 0;
+      while (count > 0)
+       {
+         unsigned this_chunk = count < chunk ? count : chunk;
+         int n = _write (fd, p, this_chunk);
+
+         nchars += n;
+         if (n < 0)
+           {
+             nchars = n;
+             break;
+           }
+         else if (n < this_chunk)
+           break;
+         count -= n;
+         p += n;
+       }
+    }
 
   return nchars;
 }