Shawn wrote: > I have used vim for several years now, but recently vim has > become painfully slow when it writes to disk. I am checking > into other possibilities, but one reason for this (in my > mind) might be that I have too many instances of vim up at > the same time. I have 48 GB of memory, so I don't think that > it is a memory issue, and my files are relatively small (~500 > lines), so I am wondering if there is some central vim > manager that gets overworked if I keep pulling up vim > instances and not closing the others. Does this make sense? > If so, is there anything I can do about it other than closing > the files that I am keeping up? If not, any other ideas as > to why it might be so slow? I just saved a 650 line file, it > took 34 seconds.
In addition to what Ben said, is the network in use at all during this? For example, are the files Vim is working on accessed over a network, or (if Windows) is your profile or home directory accessed over the network? Possibly you have some plugin that is doing silly things? Use :scriptnames to see what is loaded, and temporarily remove anything not essential. If possible, start Vim like this: vim -N -u NONE -i NONE (files) Or use gvim in above. If it is now fast, one of your plugins is responsible. One plugin I know of that shares data between instances is mru.vim. I have never seen it cause a slowdown, but I suppose if you had hundreds of Vim instances it might. BTW using gvim with tab pages is often better than multiple instances. John -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
