I have done it, I crashed Vim. 16 GB wordlist for password cracking

What will you try next? cat?

Howebout split -l ^^

how much ram did you have? got to verify

$ cat wordlist.txt
Take it to the next level.

Make things more complicated: cat file.txt > /dev/ttyX

Or something like that...

@jckimble 16 gigs on a i7 7000 series. Upon attempting to open the file, the fans went full bore and things got pretty warm

why are you using vim

@Aderm maybe because vim is the greatest editor?

Try vi no vim without plugins

@CCTrollz I just did a quick test on my laptop and it did the same thing at 8gb. my guess is a vim plugin is loading the file into full ram instead of just reading sections or a regression has happened in vim 8. what plugins do you use?

@jckimble pfft, my goto is atom, but is merely scoffed at the idea of launching that file. So I just installed vim to see if it was up to the task. And it is not.

@CCTrollz so no plugins then, guess I'm going to be looking for a memory management regression then

try crashibg sublime. i have successfully opened 32gb file on 8gb ram.

@coldfire hmm. I'm on a kaby lake i7 16 gb of RAM m.2 nvme ssd

@amahlaka found it. It is the crackstation realuniq list.