Same on 13.10 64. I've not experienced such performance loss when
opening large files in say Kate, Geany etc

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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.

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