Re: vim consumes huge memory with stty rows/columns set to 64K

Jieming wrote:

> On Linux (64 bit), the following tty settings will can cause vi to consume 40G, and can cause system to run out of memory:
>
> stty rows 65535
> stty columns 65535
> vi foo
>
> This need to be fixed (e.g., restrict columns to 512). Any comments.

I get:
E342: Out of memory! (allocating 4294901760 bytes)

Vim needs a screen buffer, 65535 * 65535 = 4294836225
Makes sense?

It actually works for me, although the screen is messed up, for obvious
reasons.

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