Further info. A friend has tried to repro this, as follows: > I created 70K files in a directory and gedit opens normally on Mint. The > file system is ext4. If I try and browse the files in "File->Open" or in > the "File Browser" in the side panel it takes it's time to populate the > browser, but starting and stopping seem fine to me. > > I do seem to have recreated the issue with an ext3 file system. Opening > a file on the ext3 file system causes gedit to run at 100% on a core for > about a minute, but only after a file on the ext3 file system. Once I > went back to editing files on ext4, it worked as normal.
I'm using ext3. However, I would be very disappointed if this problem were 'fixed' by saying I should install ext4. For example, Kate works fine on my system with these files. (I use ext3 because some of the tools on my older live CDs don't support ext4). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/761781 Title: Gedit takes many minutes to start if there are many files in directory -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
