Bug#459399: [vim]

[Frederik Schwarzer]

Package: vim
Version: 2:7.2.049-2

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I now created a file with multiple shorter lines (about 800 chars).

for k in `seq 0 1000`; do for i in `seq 0 200`; do echo -n "$i " >>file.test; done; echo >>file.test; done
for i in `seq 0 5000`;do cat file.test >>file2.test; done

file2.test is 3.3G then.
Opening it in vim leads to the same issue. Instantly "file2.test"
[New File] is shown and nothing else happens. After typing
:wq [Enter], the file is empty.

My /tmp is only 350M.
My swap is 2.7G but is never used.
Also, using a 2.6G file doesn't change anything.
However, with a file size of 2.0G, I have the behaviour you
described. It takes its time and the rest of the system complains
all the time (swap is at ~25%), but the file is actually loaded,
can be edited...
But when I want to save it, there is an error: "E297: Write error in swap file" and vim works really hard on the system's cpu and MEM
continuously. Swap is now at 70% and rising.
This is an expected behaviour. If the file I want to edit does not (or hardly) fit in my memory, it is hard to edit it.
The [New file] and overwrite on saving behaviour however, doesn't
feel intended. Did you really never experience that in your tests?

Regards

--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.26

Debian Release: 5.0
  500 unstable        www.debian-multimedia.org 
  500 unstable        ftp2.de.debian.org 
    1 experimental    ftp2.de.debian.org 

--- Package information. ---
Depends                   (Version) | Installed
===================================-+-====================
vim-common          (= 2:7.2.049-2) | 2:7.2.049-2
vim-runtime         (= 2:7.2.049-2) | 2:7.2.049-2
libacl1               (>= 2.2.11-1) | 2.2.47-2
libc6                    (>= 2.7-1) | 2.7-16
libgpm2                 (>= 1.20.4) | 1.20.4-3.1
libncurses5     (>= 5.6+20071006-3) | 5.7+20081220-1
libselinux1             (>= 2.0.59) | 2.0.65-5