vi cause high swap space utilization

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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 5.5
  • 48 GB of RAM; 4 GB of Swap

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