xterm crash upon large paste

[Zach Gelnett]

When attempting to do a large paste into an xterm window I find that the
window crashes.
 
The info I just tried to paste has 852 lines, the text total around 31k
bytes.  
 
I’m just trying to paste it into a new text file in Vim.  
 
My current work around is to just paste it into windows notepad save, then
sftp the file to the server (I’ve ssh’ed to a server where I’m pasting the
file but the issue happens if I’m doing it locally too) and do some sort of
dos2unix magic.
 
Is some variable just being overrun?