Tim Chase <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-04-16 09:58, Adrian Nagle wrote: >> 'm helping another user open a large, 3Gb, file. The standard >> windows editors balk, so I recommended VIM. Unfortunately, even >> vim crashes after scrolling some amount. For instance, he can't go >> straight to the end of file. >> >> The work station is Windows 7, 64 bit, with 32Gb of RAM. Are there >> any settings to modify to make vim more stable with large files, or >> is there some Windows performance limitation and just out of luck? > > This is pretty common, so your system's specs should be able to > handle it. Hints can be found here: > > http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Faster_loading_of_large_files > > and a plugin/script to facilitate it can be found here: > > http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1506 > > -tim
That plugin is definitely useful to speed up Vim with large files and to use less memory. Vim has to load the entire file in memory (unlike a few editors that can load on demand). However, I would not expect crashes or running out of memory on a 3GB file with 32GB of RAM (and possibly more of virtual memory). Which version of Vim are you using? Can you get a stack trace where it crashes? Make sure you use the latest version of Vim to avoid wasting time on bugs possibly already fixed. I see a recent version of Vim for Windows here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cream/files/Vim/ Regards Dominique -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
