Your machine is already swapping quite heavily even without gedit, so I
don't think that there is any bug with gedit here. You just don't have
enough RAM to open that large file.
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Status: Incomplete = Invalid
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gedit freezes when opening big text file
Of course!
$ free -m
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem: 494489 4 0 0 84
-/+ buffers/cache:404 89
Swap: 1574276 1297
$ killall gedit
$ free -m
total
Yes, 512MB is sufficient for running Ubuntu, but I think you're probably
going to struggle with Gedit on files this size. When you try to open
it, could you please post the output of :
free -m
** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Incomplete
** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu)
