On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 21:43:07 -0600
Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com> wrote:
I'm having myriad problems with gedit and large text files. OK
81MB
isn't really that large, it should be able to handle that without this
much difficulty.
First, it takes a long time to open, more than a minute, and this is
on an SSD. Next, it's doing some processing for a really long time
after it loads the document, about 5-6 minutes, while the process
consumes 100% CPU and the fans start running on high like I'm blowing
my hair dry rather than reading a document.
But the actual problem is, at some point I click out of gedit, then
back into gedit, and somehow the white background becomes black. So
it's a sea of black text on a black background and thus totally
useless.
Can anyone else reproduce this?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1359476
I don't think there's anything magical about it being 81M. I don't
have this problem though with smaller files in the 1MB or less range.
I just don't know at what threshold it becomes a problem.
I don't normally use gedit, but I fired it up on a text file that is
about 118 MB. It quickly shows the initial screen, but then seems to
lock up the screen. When I look in top, it's using 100% of one CPU.
But it isn't really using a lot of memory. The text shows as white on a
black background. When I switch to a different workspace and back, the
screen is completely black until I move the mouse, then it shows up as
white on black. I see that there is a progress bar at the top of the
screen, and it is moving very slowly, about the rate you reported.
So, yes, it appears that if I was using gedit I would have the problem
also.