From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Evans Winner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "maximum buffer size exceeded" in 64-bit emacs 22.1.1 (64G RAM) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:37:00 -0600 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86iqlxmaxv.fsf@timbral.net> References: <2f9b8f84-089e-46f6-b5cc-ca4d3edef0c5@j12g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238024720 10055 80.91.229.12 (25 Mar 2009 23:45:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:45:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 26 00:46:37 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lmcnm-0008KQ-5b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:46:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59504 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LmcmP-0007Tf-4i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:45:05 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 4xmhsRr5Aeb6D0t2Thq8sQ.user.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:36:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.7.7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:o4Ft+D8hIoA6jwF8zfSLwmdRK3s= sha1:M6y0p+OP6zOV+VaTxvBQcwewToA= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167987 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:63274 Archived-At: Mike 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