vi cause high swap space utilization

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • We opened a 23G file in vi and it caused high swap utilization and that caused high CPU causing services to stop responding.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Any version
  • Small RAM and swap configuration

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