On 13/02/2018 03:15, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 2:41 AM, Matt Ackeret <matt...@apple.com> wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2018, Zhigang Song wrote:
Will vim copy all file content to memory when I open a file?
No, that's why vim is fast opening gigantic files.
However, unlike sed, Vim is not a stream editor (i.e. an editor which
processes the file in sequence from beginning to end, writing the
output at the same time). Vim edits its file(s) in whatever sequence
the user moves the cursor, writes it only for :w :x or similar, and
for that it "prefers" to hold the whole file in memory, and it will do
so as long as each buffer is small in comparison to 'maxmem' and all
buffers combined in comparison to 'maxmemtot'. On my 64-bit system,
Vim sets both these options by default to 4021798 (a little under 4
GiB which would be 4194304 KiB, and exactly half the value on the
MemTotal line of /proc/meminfo).
In my system (macOS and Vim 8.0.1500), if I run `vim --clean`
repeatedly, both maxmem and maxmemtot are set to the same huge value,
which changes at every run, such as 9007199253926612 or
9007199253919906. I wish that were approx. half the KB of my RAM
but alas it is not. Are those normal values to see?
Life.
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