gedit can't open files over 2gb in size

thank you for your bug report, could you try if that's still an issue on hardy?

mjohansson@bang:~$ dpkg -s gedit | grep Version
Version: 2.22.1-0ubuntu1

mjohansson@bang:~$ ls -la test2.sql
-rw-r--r-- 1 mjohansson mjohansson 2122562112 2008-05-06 10:30 test2.sql

mjohansson@bang:~$ gedit test2.sql
[ ** In the gedit window: ** ]
Could not open the file /home/mjohansson/test2.sql.
Not enough available memory to open the file. Please close some running applications and try again.

I guess that is an improvement.
It shouldn't try to load the whole document at once if it can't, but I guess that would be the matter or a different bug.

Seems like a fix.

After closing Firefox and some other apps, I tried again and got the same error about not having enough memory. Including cache and swap I should have had enough byte-for-byte. I'm sure there is some overhead, but an extra gig?

mjohansson@bang:~$ ls -la test2.sql
-rw-r--r-- 1 mjohansson mjohansson 2122562112 2008-05-06 10:30 test2.sql
mjohansson@bang:~$ free
             total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3627628 2329684 1297944 0 79412 1346720
-/+ buffers/cache: 903552 2724076
Swap: 1020088 76940 943148

not sure that opening that amonth of text in a graphical editor is realistic anyway, should be sent to bugzilla.gnome.org since that's an upstream issue and the ubuntu team doesn't have the ressources to work on such changes now

I reported the Issue upstream. You can track the status and make comments here:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549959

Could you try to test this with gedit 2.30, as we reworked the file loading and it could be fixed.