Bug 83700

Summary:	vim becomes a runaway process
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Danny Sung <dannys>
Component:	vim	Assignee:	Karsten Hopp <karsten>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	CC:	andreas.smigielski, barryn, e, johnh, mattdm, michael.redinger, steve_dum, tedkaz, tim
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Description Danny Sung 2003-02-07 06:25:28 UTC

I can consistently make vim become a runaway process by loading it in a window
and closing the window in which it was created.  This happens either locally or
remotely (either in a xterm/gnome-terminal or through a putty/ssh session). 
I've seen this for several versions of redhat (I think since 6.2, but I'm not
sure).  I'm using the latest version right now, 6.1-18.7x.2.  It only seems to
happen to the vim-enhanced version, however, and not vim-minimal.  Rebuilding
from the src.rpm produces the same affect.

Comment 1 Tim Tregubov 2003-05-22 16:50:30 UTC

I can do the same, in fact we have several general login servers which consistently get loaded up 
with runnaway vim and xemacs processes both of which seem to hang in the same consistent 
manner.    All you gotta do is ssh into a box, start vim, close your terminal without quitting vim...  

I've seen this on 7.2-9.0 machines...

Comment 2 Tim Tregubov 2003-05-22 17:01:07 UTC

never mind just found this on the vim page:
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/vimfaq2html3.pl

29.9. When I kill the xterm running Vim, the Vim process continues to run
      and takes up a lot of CPU (99%) time. Why is this happening?

When Vim is built with support for Python interface, you will have this
problem. This is a known problem with a python thread library and Vim.  To
solve this problem, use a Vim binary built without the Python interface.

For more information, read

    :help +python
    :help python


Doesn't look like there is a fix yet...

Cheers,
Tim

Comment 3 Karsten Hopp 2003-05-30 12:57:58 UTC

*** Bug 91629 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Karsten Hopp 2003-06-20 11:49:04 UTC

*** Bug 88458 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Karsten Hopp 2003-06-20 11:50:08 UTC

*** Bug 83177 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Karsten Hopp 2003-06-20 11:51:43 UTC

*** Bug 78350 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Karsten Hopp 2003-06-20 12:00:35 UTC

*** Bug 61141 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 John Hardin 2003-09-25 17:33:06 UTC

This is happening to us, too. 

dkl, can we get a fixed vim built and released? Or perhaps a fixed Python thread
library if vim +python is too useful to lose?

Thanks.