Ken Takata wrote: > 2014/4/17 Thu 0:58:01 UTC+9 Adrian 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? > > There is a related item in the todo.txt: > > | Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing > | pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var. > > I wrote some patches to fix this, but they seem to be still unstable. > > https://bitbucket.org/k_takata/vim-ktakata-mq/src/192069dac4356c186b89e0451a254599713d2309/support-largefiles-on-windows.patch?at=default > https://bitbucket.org/k_takata/vim-ktakata-mq/src/192069dac4356c186b89e0451a254599713d2309/use-stat_T.patch?at=default
Did you make progress on this? Can we also add some tests to verify the fix? -- >From "know your smileys": :-E Has major dental problems /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- 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.
