Re: Opening large files?

Ken Takata wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2014/4/17 Thu 0:58:01 UTC+9 Adrian wrote:
>> 'm helping another user open a large, 3Gb, file. The standard windows
>> editors balk, so I recommended VIM. Unfortunately, even vim crashes
>> after scrolling some amount. For instance, he can't go straight to
>> the end of file.
>>
>> The work station is Windows 7, 64 bit, with 32Gb of RAM. Are there
>> any settings to modify to make vim more stable with large files, or is
>> there some Windows performance limitation and just out of luck?
> There is a related item in the todo.txt:
>
> | Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
> | pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
>
> I wrote some patches to fix this, but they seem to be still unstable.
>
> https://bitbucket.org/k_takata/vim-ktakata-mq/src/192069dac4356c186b89e0451a254599713d2309/support-largefiles-on-windows.patch?at=default
> https://bitbucket.org/k_takata/vim-ktakata-mq/src/192069dac4356c186b89e0451a254599713d2309/use-stat_T.patch?at=default
>
The LargeFile plugin turns the swapfile option for large files, so it
would help avoid this problem; TIm has already provided a link to it, so
I won't repeat that here.

Is your "another user" using a FAT32 partition? That filesystem is
limited to 4G files, and so possibly the swapfile is exceeding that limit.

Regards,
Chip Campbell

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