From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Handling large files with Emacs Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:40:02 +0200 Message-ID: <83objsc47x.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k3uhf0gc.fsf@panzer.v.cablecom.net> <87a9vdeyrf.fsf@panzer.v.cablecom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351024829 5908 80.91.229.3 (23 Oct 2012 20:40:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:40:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 23 22:40:36 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1TQlH9-0004qB-Bg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:40:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47265 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQlGy-0000ry-DU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:40:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34463) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQlGn-0000rn-63 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:40:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQlGg-0000eP-Po for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:40:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:47962) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQlGg-0000ZA-IQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:40:06 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MCD0060058G5P00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:40:03 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MCD005FS5ERVSC0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:40:03 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87a9vdeyrf.fsf@panzer.v.cablecom.net> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:87382 Archived-At: > From: Fab > Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:09:40 +0200 > > > How large is "large"? Which version of Emacs was that? On what > > platform (CPU and OS)? > Actually "only" ~6mb with 120000 lines That's ridiculously small. I routinely edit files approaching 500MB without any problems, and that's on a 32-bit machine, whereas yours is a 64-bit one. So something is seriously wrong with your system, or maybe with the Emacs binary (but I can hardly believe it).