How to limit amount of memory used by vim?

Hi,

using Vim 7.4 on Linux server I have opened large log file and I tried to perform some log formatting using ":%s" command.

It looks like Vim froze (probably it didn't, it just worked hard), but like after a minute Linux server got out of memory and Linux start killing the biggest memory consumption processes including one very important server. From Linux logs I see vim consumed 50 GB of memory, that is what triggered Linux to get out of memory.

Just wondering is there a way to set in Vim, how much memory is Vim allowed to use? If Vim exceeds that amount the last action performing is just canceled with error.

Regards

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