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Not really related, but this reminds me of an issue I once saw where starting vi on one of our servers took something over a minute. Everywhere else it was impe
by dcminter 4y ago
Not really related, but this reminds me of an issue I once saw where starting vi on one of our servers took something over a minute. Everywhere else it was imperceptibly fast. It eventually turned out that in the distant past someone had accidentally piped a large file into vi, and so every time it started up it was loading up a command history that included this stupidly big file to absolutely no purpose, annoying everyone but not quite enough that anyone else had tracked down the cause.
- mort96 4y agoInteresting, that'd surely become an issue over time with normal usage as well if it never deletes old entries?
- dcminter 4y agoSeems the default limit is 20 commands - perhaps someone had overridden it to be much higher. It was about a decade ago though so I may be misremembering something about the issue.