No wonder my system was swapping like mad. I only have 512 Mb,
so when I started 4 vim instances, the system became
unusable:
lapse:~> ps up 18139
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
madduck 18139 2.6 26.8 225460 214645 pts/10 S+ 01:23 0:01 vim
^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
I don’t claim I understand memory management. But what the heck is going on?
If I start vim without my configuration (vim -u
NONE), the problem goes away. However, starting vim on
another machine (remote, via non-X-forwarding SSH) with the same
configuration, it uses a few megabytes, no more.
