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Re: "maximum buffer size exceeded" in 64-bit emacs 22.1.1 (64G RAM)
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Evans Winner |
Subject: |
Re: "maximum buffer size exceeded" in 64-bit emacs 22.1.1 (64G RAM) |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:37:00 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
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