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voidmain:
What distro and version are you using?  I don't recall ever having this problem.  On occassion I have had certain versions of certain apps with memory leaks but killing/restarting them has always solved the problem.  If you abruptly disconnect from your server while editing a file in vi/vim it will stay running but I have not noticed it to eat up CPU cycles.  And I have always been able to kill that vi/vim session (as the user that the process is running under) without the "-9" and then when I start another vim session I use the "-r" (recovery) param and have never lost anything I was working on, always puts me right back where I was.  This happens to me often when editing files on remote servers via ssh connection over the internet..

dbl221:
I had a similar problem with VIM (gvim) when I didn't close it down correctly...the vim process chewed up lots of cpu cycles even though the gvim session was not open.

I had to kill -9 pid and have never had a repeat of the problem when I shut down vim/gvim with the usual :q! or :wq.

Using vim version 6.0.19.  Hope this helps

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