After an evaluation, GNOME has moved from Bugzilla to GitLab. Learn more about GitLab.
No new issues can be reported in GNOME Bugzilla anymore.
To report an issue in a GNOME project, go to GNOME GitLab.
Do not go to GNOME Gitlab for: Bluefish, Doxygen, GnuCash, GStreamer, java-gnome, LDTP, NetworkManager, Tomboy.
Bug 486393 - Opening a large file crashes gedit
Opening a large file crashes gedit
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 172099
Product: gedit
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.20.x
Other All
: Normal critical
: ---
Assigned To: Gedit maintainers
Gedit maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-10-13 19:17 UTC by Charles A. Landemaine
Modified: 2008-03-17 17:57 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Description Charles A. Landemaine 2007-10-13 19:17:26 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open a 10MB text file (ie: log file)
2. Watch the "top" command
3. gedit uses all CPU and you have to kill it.


Stack trace:


Other information:
You can use the same large files in TextPad or EditPad Pro with no problem at all.
Comment 1 Massimo Cora' 2007-10-21 09:58:52 UTC 
Probably this 'bug' is still present in head.
Have a look at this
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172099
Comment 2 Massimo Cora' 2008-02-22 09:39:51 UTC 
Is there any plan in Sourceview 2.1 to fix this?
Comment 3 scriptoff 2008-03-16 19:07:10 UTC 
With a 23M file , I did the three steps with no problems .
Gedit has charged the file with 6 seconds and no crash .

I have Gnome 2.20.3 with archlinux .
Comment 4 Pavel Šefránek 2008-03-17 17:57:37 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 172099 ***