Using gedit to open a huge text file uses to much memory

[Kristoffer Grundström]

I made a file by dumping an epk-file with hexdump and as I wanted to open the file with gedit it worked fine in the beginning, but then gedit seemed to run out of memory and therefore crashed, but no crash reporter could load.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: gedit 3.10.4-0ubuntu13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-18.22-generic 4.2.3
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Nov 12 11:45:46 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-11 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Kristoffer Grundström (umeaman)]

Same file takes a longer time to load with nano in a terminal window, but no crash and no message about not getting enough memory to use.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 15.10 (wily) reached end-of-life on July 28, 2016.

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