gedit freezes when opening big text file

[launcspad]

I tried to open a big text file (42 MB) with gedit, but it freezes. I have 512 MB RAM said to be enough for Ubuntu 8.10.

Command more works! I attach what the file contain -- perhaps the many <?> causes the problem? This is a Hungarian text.

When I try to open it with gedit, it starts and becomes gray, the hdd is working only. Does it perhaps analyse the WHOLE file for the encoding?

~$ more filename.txt
A, g�r�g sz�k elej�n (latin n�vvel a privativum v. alphaprivativum, foszt� alfa)
 a. m. a magy. foszt�k�pz�, mert megfoszt�st hi�nyt jelent; p. apatikus �rz�ketl
en, alalia �s af�zia besz�lni-nem-tud�s, akatolikus nem-katolikus. Mag�nhangz
el�tt an- p. anorganikus szervetlen, anonim n�vtelen.A, valamikor els� hangja vo
lt a t�rzs-sk�l�nak. Ma a hatodik. Tudnunk kell, hogy Kr. u. a X. sz�zadban g
g bet�k helyett latin bet�kkel kezdik jelezni a hangokat ; ekkor a t�rzs-sk�la
gy sz�lt : A B C D E F G A. Ennek a r�gi t�rzssk�l�nak ugyanaz a jelent�s�ge vol
t, mint ma a mi dur-t�rzs-sk�l�nknak : c d e f g a h c. A r�giek is a f�lhangot
a 3. �s 4. tov�bb� a 7. �s 8. fokok k�z� helyezt�k. Teh�t C-D �s G-A r�gente ugy
anazt jelentette, mint ma e-f �s h-c. K�l�nb�z� magass�g� a-r�l besz�l�nk, amint
 ezt a k�vetkez� t�bl�zat mutatja : # Sz�mok helyett vonalk�kat is haszn�lhatun
k, pl. k�tvon�sos a : a2 vagy a" #. Olaszok, franci�k, spanyolok az a-t la-nak h

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Yes, 512MB is sufficient for running Ubuntu, but I think you're probably going to struggle with Gedit on files this size. When you try to open it, could you please post the output of :

free -m

[launcspad (weblev-deactivatedaccount)]

Of course!

$ free -m
             total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 494 489 4 0 0 84
-/+ buffers/cache: 404 89
Swap: 1574 276 1297

$ killall gedit

$ free -m
             total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 494 356 137 0 0 43
-/+ buffers/cache: 312 181
Swap: 1574 290 1283

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Your machine is already swapping quite heavily even without gedit, so I don't think that there is any bug with gedit here. You just don't have enough RAM to open that large file.