From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: "maximum buffer size exceeded" in 64-bit emacs 22.1.1 (64G RAM) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:00:45 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <2f9b8f84-089e-46f6-b5cc-ca4d3edef0c5@j12g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238057453 14808 80.91.229.12 (26 Mar 2009 08:50:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:50:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 26 09:52:10 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1LmlJk-0007l8-3t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:52:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60121 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LmlIM-0003Wu-Ig for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:50:38 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!j12g2000vbl.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 5 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.56.6.101 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1238004045 11274 127.0.0.1 (25 Mar 2009 18:00:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:00:45 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j12g2000vbl.googlegroups.com; posting-host=204.56.6.101; posting-account=HzoHyQoAAADkO0OugiC4Ll50LgqNSvMD User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009030516 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.7, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 delta:8080 (squid/2.7.STABLE3) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167978 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:48:15 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:63282 Archived-At: I recently tried opening a 5GB file on a 64GB RAM machine and was a little surprised that it didn't work. This is with emacs 22.1.1, compiled 64-bit (part of a Red Hat distribution). Is this supposed to work? Is there any reason why it shouldn't?