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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Huge file adventure (+patch)
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 19:07:48 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fvsd5ajv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5252832E.5060804@yandex.ru>

> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:47:26 +0400
> From: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
> 
> Recently I have got installed 16GB RAM in my laptop and, of course,
> have tried to open 8GB ASCII text file to see what happens (now it's
> just 1/2 of RAM, so why not?). After opening, I did some editing,
> then wait for auto-save and ... got "Memory exhausted" message. Short
> investigation quickly shows that I need ... 24GB of RAM to handle
> such a file :-(. Here is why:

Thanks for testing.  Just 2.5 years ago Emacs would crash and burn
with any file larger than 2GB, instead of erroring out due to
insufficient VM.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-07 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-07  9:47 Huge file adventure (+patch) Dmitry Antipov
2013-10-07 15:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-07 16:03   ` Dmitry Antipov
2013-10-07 19:03     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-07 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-10-07 17:07   ` Dmitry Antipov

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