I suspect that I have a Chromebook/Gnu-Linux problem, not an Emacs problem. Using 'crosh', the terminal for the Chromebook, I did: swap enable 4000 and then rebooted. After the reboot, Chrosh reports a lot of swap space: crosh> free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 3881392 1615268 48408 1896264 2217716 299596 Swap: 4095996 2636800 1459196 crosh> However, the free command when typed into the Emacs shell, running under Linux, still says: > free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 2827236 1178476 1075032 22224 573728 1648760 Swap: 0 0 0 > It seems possible that my problem may have a solution, namely to wipe my Linux clean and start over from scratch. I thank you for your wise and very kind help, and I will let you know if I make any progress. Bob P. S. I think you may close this bug report, saying 'not an Emacs problem'. On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 6:15 AM Robert Boyer wrote: > > What does the command 'free' display if you invoke it from the shell > prompt? > > > free > total used free shared buff/cache > available > Mem: 2827236 1172052 1010804 22736 644380 > 1655184 > Swap: 0 0 0 > > > > On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 5:10 AM Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> > From: Robert Boyer >> > Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2024 02:54:47 -0600 >> > Cc: 69492@debbugs.gnu.org, moore@cs.utexas.edu, bundy@ed.ac.uk, >> > grant@imandra.ai, rms@gnu.org, stassats@gmail.com >> > >> > I did not seem to have trouble finding the file, literally. >> > >> > It showed up ok in a buffer, as I said in my bug report. >> > >> > The problem I had was that I could not move to the bottom of the buffer >> with M->. >> >> What exactly is the problem? My guess is that the problem is the same >> I mentioned: your system doesn't have enough VM. What does the >> command 'free' display if you invoke it from the shell prompt? >> >