From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Huge file adventure (+patch) Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 19:07:48 +0300 Message-ID: <83fvsd5ajv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5252832E.5060804@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381162087 21126 80.91.229.3 (7 Oct 2013 16:08:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 16:08:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Antipov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 07 18:08:10 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VTDLu-00061u-LH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2013 18:08:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60709 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTDLu-0007LS-0G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:08:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59789) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTDLl-0007Eo-01 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:08:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTDLd-0003cd-LZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:08:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:47152) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTDLd-0003cK-DY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:07:53 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MUB0060037GMM00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2013 19:07:52 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MUB006D03H3GR70@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 07 Oct 2013 19:07:52 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <5252832E.5060804@yandex.ru> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163951 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:47:26 +0400 > From: Dmitry Antipov > > 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.