My instance of vim (gvim on Windows) appears to have a memory leak, which makes
me sad. Is this a common thing for everyone, or is there something in my setup
which might be causing it? It's pretty serious.
When I start gvim and load my standard session, it will take up about 86MB of
RAM. This includes dozens of buffers, splits, tabs and syntax, so I'm not
really worried. After about four hours it will be up to more like 120MB, and
after a couple of days it will be 200MB+.
Loading a "fresh" copy of gvim with all the plugins and my .vimrc, there are
various actions I can see that increase the memory usage as reported by the
Windows Task Manager. I have no idea on the validity of the Task Manager, but
it's all I have on Windows.
:sp on a new buffer causes a raise of 4-8K.
:q on a split causes a raise of 4-8K.
Switching to/from gvim causes a small increase, typically 4-8K for a
few switches.
Searching (with *) for a word in a .c file (with syntax highlighting)
causes it to increase. If you hold down * then you can see the memory usage
rocket up.
Basically, pretty much any action.
Any ideas? Will I just have to live with it and restart my vim session every
couple of days?
Thanks,
Max
