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From: Evans Winner <thorne@timbral.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "maximum buffer size exceeded" in 64-bit emacs 22.1.1 (64G RAM)
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:37:00 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86iqlxmaxv.fsf@timbral.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2f9b8f84-089e-46f6-b5cc-ca4d3edef0c5@j12g2000vbl.googlegroups.com

Mike <tutufan@gmail.com> writes:


    I recently tried opening a 5GB file

It had to happen sometime.  someone opened the complete
works of... everybody in history concatenated into a single
file. 

    on a 64GB RAM machine

So, uh, is that standard these days?  What kind of machine
is it?  Where can I get one cheap?

    Is this supposed to work?  Is there any reason why it
    shouldn't?

I'm sorry this is a totally content-less reply.  I just
couldn't help myself.  

But there is an emacswiki page that might be useful[1].
Perhaps the OS is not really prepared to grant all 64Gb of
memory to that one process.  Even with 8 bits used for lispy
things that I didn't really pause to read carefully, I would
think 64 bit addressing gives you over 7Gb, right?

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsFileSizeLimit



  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-25 23:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-25 18:00 "maximum buffer size exceeded" in 64-bit emacs 22.1.1 (64G RAM) Mike
2009-03-25 23:37 ` Evans Winner [this message]
2009-03-26  1:03   ` Xah Lee
2009-03-26 15:33   ` Mike
2009-03-26 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii

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