Same on 13.10 and big files begin on 1 MB of XML data ... (quad core and 16 GB of free memory is not enought to open 1 MB file)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156201 Title: gedit handles opening big files badly Status in Light-Weight Text Editor for Gnome: Confirmed Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: gedit Opening big text files (400 MB, 750 MB) in gedit is bad - from a usability standpoint -> There's no progress bar or cancel button for the action, and the load takes a long time. - from a system standpoint: -> In earlier versions, gedit would take so much memory until the system swapped all other applications to disk, and the system became unusable. -> Since Ubuntu 9.04 Beta, gedit crashes without a GUI message, but the message "failed to allocate <X> bytes" in the console. Original description: I just opened a 400 MB text file (mbox mail file) in gedit, and it my system has now been unresponsive for minutes. Other editors can open large files without a problem. Also, there's no progress bar or cancel button that would make it easy to see how long gedit is loading the file or to cancel the load. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/156201/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
