Re: vim consume huge memory and can cause oom stty rows/columns 65535

On Monday, May 13, 2013 11:19:46 PM UTC-4, John Little wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 14, 2013 7:57:45 AM UTC+12, jimmywang wrote:
>
> > With the following setting, vi can consume up to 40GB on my Linux (64 bit) machine:
> >
> > stty rows 65535
> > stty columns 65535
> > vi /tmp/foo
>
> Interesting.
> Are you sure that's vim? On my Kubuntu 13.04, vi gives me vim 7.3.547 "Huge version with GTK2 GUI" "Modified by pkg-vim-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org" and it clips lines to 1000 and columns to 10000, and only uses about 150 kiB.
>
> So, which Linux distro? And when you run "vi", what does
>
> :ver
>
> say? What does (in your shell)
>
> ls -l /etc/alternatives/vi
>
> say?
>
> Regards, John Little

John,

This comes from redhat linux distro/CentOS.

VIM - Vi IMproved 7.0 (2006 May 7, compiled Jun 12 2009 07:08:36)
Included patches: 1, 3-4, 7-9, 11, 13-17, 19-26, 29-31, 34-44, 47, 50-56, 58-64, 66-73, 75, 77-92, 94-107, 109, 202, 234-237
Modified by <bugzilla@redhat.com>
Compiled by <bugzilla@redhat.com>
Huge version without GUI. Features included (+) or not (-):

Thanks
Jieming

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