AWS VMs behaving weirdly especially trying to open vim hangs the ssh connection

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This is among the most bizarre errors and problems that I have encountered. It is possible that AWS VMs behaving weirdly especially trying to open vim hangs the ssh connection. Other symptoms include unable to run ls in a folder without any problem with disks. This problem can be solved by reducing MTU from 1500 to 1492 using: 

sudo /sbin/ifconfig eth0 mtu 1492

Steps learned from http://askubuntu.com/questions/381062/terminal-freezes-on-running-apt-get-or-vim Similar problem faced while using top described at http://serverfault.com/questions/390604/amazon-ec2-instance-issuing-top-command-just-goes-blank-on-the-ssh-terminal



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