From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#2790: emacs 22.1.1 cannot open 5GB file on 64GB 64-bit Linux box Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:59:16 +0300 Message-ID: <8339g2xy7v.fsf@gnu.org> References: <3c6c07c20903260850r180e942dscb2c61d1096793f8@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1315796399 20150 80.91.229.12 (12 Sep 2011 02:59:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 02:59:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 2790-done@debbugs.gnu.org, tutufan@gmail.com To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 12 04:59:55 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R2wkT-0000U8-9X for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 04:59:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33788 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R2wkS-0006oG-Pi for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:59:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44554) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R2wkN-0006o5-GU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:59:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R2wkJ-0001I0-Mm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:59:47 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:47894) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R2wkJ-0001Hm-Fm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:59:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R2woT-0003vE-T2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:04:01 -0400 Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:04:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 2790 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Mail-Followup-To: 2790@debbugs.gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by 2790-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D2790.131579662315049 (code D ref 2790); Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:04:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 2790-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Sep 2011 03:03:43 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R2woB-0003ug-Gr for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:03:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R2wo8-0003uX-8T for 2790-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:03:41 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LRE00A002WK7I00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 2790-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:59:18 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.9.62]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LRE0091X2YRS980@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:59:18 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:04:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:51030 Archived-At: > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:10:05 +0200 > Cc: 2790@debbugs.gnu.org > > Mike Coleman writes: > > > I'm trying to open a large (between 4GB and 5GB) file on a x86-64 > > Linux box that has 64GB of RAM. I'm getting the error message > > "Maximum buffer size exceeded". > > A lot of work has gone into making Emacs 24 usable for visiting buffers > that are larger than 2GB. But I'm not sure if Emacs 24 is quite there > yet. > > Has anybody tried this lately? We are there. Before I removed the 2GB limit hat was artificially put there to avoid crashes, I actually visited a file larger than 2GB (I think it was 3GB and change) and made sure I can move in it, edit it, and save it. So I'm closing this bug.