Re: Too many instances of vim?

Thanks to everyone, your inputs were all good possibilities. It turns
out that Ben's suggestion to test the plugins was the one I needed.
When I stopped using one of my python plugins everything started
working as expected.

-shawn

On Jun 1, 10:16 pm, Dominique Pellé <dominique.pe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Shawn <spacep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > I have used vim for several years now, but recently vim has become
> > painfully slow when it writes to disk.  I am checking into other
> > possibilities, but one reason for this (in my mind) might be that I
> > have too many instances of vim up at the same time.  I have 48 GB of
> > memory, so I don't think that it is a memory issue, and my files are
> > relatively small (~500 lines), so I am wondering if there is some
> > central vim manager that gets overworked if I keep pulling up vim
> > instances and not closing the others.  Does this make sense?  If so,
> > is there anything I can do about it other than closing the files that
> > I am keeping up?  If not, any other ideas as to why it might be so
> > slow?  I just saved a 650 line file, it took 34 seconds.
>
> I'm not sure what's the root cause for slow writes here, but one
> possibility could be that fsync() is slow on your file system.
> If so, doing this will help:
>
>    :set nofsync
>
> Read ":help fsync" to be aware of the possible drawbacks in case
> of system crash.
>
> Personally, I use ":set nofsync" on my laptop to avoid spinning
> the disk whenever I write to file. I consider Linux reliable enough
> that I can afford delaying the write. My ~/.vimrc contains:
>
> if exists('+fsync') | set nofsync | endif
>
> Regards
> -- Dominique

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