GNU bug report logs - #69492
File too big for Emacs?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Robert Boyer <robertstephenboyer <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 23:33:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

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From: Robert Boyer <robertstephenboyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: moore <at> cs.utexas.edu, rms <at> gnu.org, 69492 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bundy <at> ed.ac.uk, grant <at> imandra.ai, stassats <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#69492: File too big for Emacs?
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2024 02:54:47 -0600
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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->.

Can you?

Bob


On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 12:55 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > Cc: J Moore <moore <at> cs.utexas.edu>, Alan Bundy <bundy <at> ed.ac.uk>,
> >  Grant Passmore <grant <at> imandra.ai>, rms <at> gnu.org,
> >  Stas Boukarev <stassats <at> gmail.com>
> > From: Robert Boyer <robertstephenboyer <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 17:30:56 -0600
> >
> > Dear Emacs bug exterminators,
> >
> > The 1 gb file for which I give a url below does not seem to work in
> Emacs.
> >
> > The file enumerates the primes below 10^9, so it would be very handy to
> > have around.
> >
> > I can get the file into an Emacs buffer in literal mode.  Thanks for
> that.
> >
> > But then I cannot move to the bottom, i.e., using M->.  In fact, in the
> attempt to
> > move to the bottom, things go so badly that I have to reboot my $100
> > Lenovo Chromebook.
> >
> > Is it just too big for Emacs to handle?
>
> Since your Emacs is a 64-bit build, a 1GB file shouldn't be too big,
> provided that your system has enough virtual memory to support reading
> it into memory (which might require more than 1GB, perhaps up to 2GB).
> If Emacs says "Memory exhausted" when you visit that file, try
> enlarging the size of swap for your system.
>
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