I just tried the same in 9.04 Beta, and gedit crashed without a warning. Starting gedit from the console, I get an allocation error.
** Summary changed: - System unresponsive when opening huge files in gedit + gedit handles opening big files badly ** Description changed: Binary package hint: gedit - 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. + 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. ** Tags added: memory resources swap -- gedit handles opening big files badly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156201 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
