reading a file in emacs crashes 2.4.17 and 18-pre4

[John Covici]

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Its a small file and was actually an accident, but you get all sorts
of unable to handle kernel paging ... and eventually a kernel panic
because it was trying to kill the idle process.

I am using emacs version "21.2.50.1" and I have 1.4ghz Athlon and 256
m of memory.

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         John Covici
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