vi cause high swap space utilization
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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