On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:32:57 -0700, Linda W wrote:
> Under maxmem, it says:
>
> 'maxmemtot' 'mmt' number (default between 2048 and 10240 (system
> dependent) or half the amount of memory
> available)
> global
> {not in Vi}
> Maximum amount of memory (in Kbyte) to use for all buffers
> together. Maximum value 2000000. Use this to work without a
> limit. Also see 'maxmem'.
> ----
> 1 minor unclarity:
>
> 1) 2048-10240 Bytes is awfully small for today's systems...should this
> number be said to be in 'KB'? Maybe it should start defaulting to
> 'MB' (with appropriate default changes -- or allow 'units' to be
> specified? like MB/mb or tb/TB?
It is in KB. Just look at the first line of the synopsis. So the defaults
mentioned are 2 megabytes and 10 megabytes respectively.
Though I notice that my default is outside this range: namely when I
start a new GVIM instance on Debian AMD64 (with 4 GB of RAM installed,
and 332MB of that used), maxmemtot=1966108. Does this mean it defaults to
2048-10240 kbytes if that default is larger than half the amount of memory
available? A cleanup to the docs would be useful, but the default numbers
aren't ridiculous.
> 2) One minor (outdated) statement: "Maximum value=2000000" -- that
> doesn't
> apply to 64 bit machines. I'm logged in remotely to a linux box
> running gvim and 'maxmem' shows about 3x that amount.
--
Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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