OK. I'll report this upstream too, but until then I'll dump here all my diagnostics.
I'm attaching an strace done with "strace -fT -e trace=stat64,time gedit &> stracing-gedit. Backtrace next. ** Attachment added: "stracing-gedit.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15997755/stracing-gedit.gz -- gedit is ridiculously slow (and does too much work) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247228 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs