Gedit/Text editor have huge ram and cpu usage which leads to crash when Preferences openned.

Bug #2069150 reported by Zahid Abdullah
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gedit (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Gedit/Text editor have huge cpu and ram usage which leads to crash when Preferences openned.

OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x86_64
Kernel: 6.8.0-35-generic
Shell: bash 5.2.21
DE: GNOME 46.0
WM: Mutter
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 (12) @ 3.500GH
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
Memory: 2422MiB / 32014MiB

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Zahid Abdullah (ev4n) wrote :
description: updated
summary: - Gedit/Text editor have huge ram usage and leads to crash when
+ Gedit/Text editor have huge ram and cpu usage which leads to crash when
Preferences openned.
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Sebastian V. Bauer (papapapa101224) wrote :

Same with me. I updated from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS and now I am not anymore able to open the preferences because RAM gets bloated until it crashes.

OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.8.0-38-generic
Windowing System: Wayland
GNOME Version 46
Hardware Model: Lenovo ThinkPad E595
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3500U
GPU: Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx 8
Memory: 16 GiB

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