gedit handles opening big files badly
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gedit |
Confirmed
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High
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gedit (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Medium
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
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.
Changed in gedit: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in gedit: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in gedit: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in gedit: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in gedit: | |
importance: | Medium → High |
Thanks for your report.