Emacs and large files

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From: Joe Ramey
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 1990 19:09

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How large a file should I be able to edit with GNU Emacs (version
18.55)?  I have a file that is around 8 Megabytes that Emacs on a
Sun-4 running SunOS 4.0.3 has trouble with.  I bring up the file,
search for a string, then use M-< to go back to the top, and the
contents of the buffer are scrambled.  Editing the same file on Emacs
on a MIPS M/2000 system works fine.

If I decrease the size of the file slightly, it appears to work okay.
The breaking point seems to be around 8386700 bytes.

Joe Ramey
TI Computer Science Center

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