From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#3918: maximum buffer size exceed Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:43:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200907241241.n6OCfnjC015013@bgl-lds-188.cisco.com> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier , 3918@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248620273 14214 80.91.229.12 (26 Jul 2009 14:57:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:57:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 3918@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: Gunturu Murali Krishna Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 26 16:57:46 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1MV5AX-0008OU-Fb for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:57:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46935 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MV5AU-0003wk-B8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:57:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MV5AP-0003wI-S3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:57:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MV5AL-0003vw-Tj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:57:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56751 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MV5AL-0003vl-Dz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:57:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:53232) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MV5AK-0008HO-Jc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:57:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n6QEvU6C019381; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:57:30 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n6QEo4kV017885; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:50:04 -0700 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:50:04 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 3918 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 3918-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B3918.124861944716953 (code B ref 3918); Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:50:04 +0000 Original-Received: (at 3918) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 26 Jul 2009 14:44:07 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. 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(y or n) > byte-code: Maximum buffer size exceeded > Making completion list... > call-interactively: Text is read-only > call-interactively: End of buffer [8 times] > Making completion list... [3 times] > call-interactively: Text is read-only > Quit > Making completion list... [2 times] > Loading emacsbug...done > How can I open large file in EMACS? IIRC, on a 64bit system, you can open files upto 2GB. On 32bit systems, you're currently limited to 256MB only (it could be pushed to 512MB with some changes to the C code), and going significantly further is pretty difficult. Stefan