Karsten Hopp wrote:
> Bastien Nocera noticed a problem with the way how vim calculates the
> available memory.
> His bugreport is for vim-6.3, but it looks to be valid for vim-7 as well.
> Please have a look at
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194040
> for the details.
Unfortunately the patch included is a hack that won't work on anything
but a few specific systems.
There should at least be a configure check for the mem_unit member.
Changing long_u to be "long long" is wrong, this should be done locally
where "mem" is used. And it requires a configure check for "long long".
Then all places where "mem" is used need to be checked. It's compared
against rlim_cur, that doesn't look right.
The result should probably be trucated to a 32 bit number. I don't
think that Vim should ever use more than 4 Gbyte of RAM. Except on 64
bit machines perhaps.
I can't do any of this since my system doesn't have sysinfo.
Another solution is that the weird mem_unit thing is removed and
totalram has the amount of ram, as it should have.
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