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Subject: Re: "maximum buffer size exceeded" in 64-bit emacs 22.1.1 (64G RAM)
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> From: Mike <tutufan@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:00:45 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> I recently tried opening a 5GB file on a 64GB RAM machine and was a
> little surprised that it didn't work.  This is with emacs 22.1.1,
> compiled 64-bit (part of a Red Hat distribution).

Are you sure that Emacs is a 64-bit binary?  What does "file emacs"
say?