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- From: kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
- Subject: Re: demacs crashes trying to load large (>1MB) text files
- Keywords: demacs,crash, large files
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.042146.15816@digi.lonestar.org>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 04:21:46 GMT
- References: <eneafsey.724774924@lucpul.it.luc.edu>
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- In article <eneafsey.724774924@lucpul.it.luc.edu> eneafsey@lucpul.it.luc.edu (E. J. Neafsey) writes:
- >When I try to load large (>1MB) text files, such as Roget's Thesaurus
- >or calc's texinfo file, demacs crashes. Am I doing something wrong,
- >or is it a problem with demacs? BTW, Vernon Buerg's LIST program has
- >no trouble with these files at all.
-
- GNU Emacs was designed to run on a machine whose OS has lots of virtual
- memory. By design, when loading a file to edit, it loads the WHOLE file.
-
- When I first ran into the problem, my system simply locked up. I had to
- reboot to restore things to normal. Check your CONFIG.SYS and see how you
- have your memory configured. Compare this configuration to the memory
- discusions in the Demacs documentation. When I increased the amount of memory
- available to Demacs to be larger than the largest file I wished to edit, I was
- able to edit files over 1MB.
-
- In your case, I suspect that your configuration limits the memory available to
- Demacs to 1MB.
-
- >One other thing: any solutions to demacs's file locking problems that
- >occur when you add the "-9" to SET TZ=CST-9??? The "-9" makes the
- >time correct but screws up something else.
-
- At one time I used to have the problem where Demacs sometimes complained, when
- I attempted to save a modified buffer, that the original file had changed on
- disk since I started my edit session. I have not seen this problem for a
- long, long time and I have been unable to figure out what I must have done to
- fix the problem.
-
- When it happens again to you, please do the following:
-
- 1. Suspend Demacs with a C-z.
- 2. Query DOS for the current date and time and write it down.
- 3. Do a directory on the original unmodified file and write its date
- and time down. Also record the date and time of any auto-save and
- backup files.
- 4. Type "exit" to return to Demacs.
-
- If you collect this data for the next half dozen times you have the problem,
- we may be able to see some pattern to this that may point to the bug in the
- code.
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