Kirill Ryzhkov wrote:
Hi Vim developers!
I use vim on Linux all the time and found a problem with creating just
huge swp files that can take up all the hard disk space.
If you open vim and copy a large text that can cause the linux console
to hang and then you force close the console, after a couple of days
the swp file size can reach hundreds of gigabytes. I have already
encountered this problem twice and each time I had to look for where
these swp files were created in which directory.
I am using vim version 8.0.1453.
Maybe there is a new version that fixes this bug ?
No, but since you're a linux user you can handle this problem yourself
with a cron job.
Use crontab -e to edit the cron table commands. (cron is a daemon that
runs at your specified times to do some work).
# # # # # /path/to/script
#1: minute (0-59)
#2: hour (0-23)
#3: day-of-month (1-31)
#4: month (1-12)
#5: day-of-week (0-6)
The shell script or command you have cron run can then check for size
for those files which look like swap files, and if they're too big and
too old; delete it.
For example: ...time-spec-here.. /usr/bin/find "/home/username" -type
f -name '*.sw[a-z]' -atime 3 -size 2G -exec "/bin/rm" "{}" ";"
Note, I haven't tested the above line, and instead of removing the file,
you may want to move it to some directory instead (to see if the command
is doing what you want).
Suggested reading: man crontab, man find. UAYOR.
Chip Campbell
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