I'm on Lynx, running gedit 2.30.3. I started getting this problem a few weeks ago. I got rid of it somehow but it's back now.
Seeing the direction on this report page, I started testing the plug- ins. I had reinstalled gedit and probably dropped all extra plug-ins in the process. Switching off the plug-ins one after another, I found all would switch off easily, except for Bestandsverkennerspaneel, which took a long time to switch off. I don't know the English name (the plug-in info doesn't show a "standard name"), but the name translates to something like "File Explorer Panel". Figuring that this was something file related, I started saving files from gedit with new names, exiting and launching in between. For the first five, I had not changes. The sixth file I did by launching from the shell with a new filename. At that point the processor usage dropped back to normal. Considering this is file-exploring related, I wonder whether the fact that I'm editing files in multiple fifty thousand file directories might be causing problems. I've been editing files from a single such directory for years, but it's recent that I've had multiple such directories, and it's from that same time that I'm writing files back to overwrite files in such copies. I'm not saying that this is definitely the cause, but it might be worth having a look at. I'll leave that plug-in switched of for now, but feel free to ask me to test. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367372 Title: Gedit uses 100% of the CPU while editing files Status in Light-Weight Text Editor for Gnome: New Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: gedit Making changes to a file(typing or deleting characters) makes gedit consume 100% of the CPU power available. I noticed this since I've installed Ubuntu 9.04. I was poking in the fonts setting under the appearance preferences and I thought I noticed a slight difference if I turn off all processing and make the font glyph render without subpixel rendering and hinting. However it is merely marginal. To make sure it was not the graphics drivers I switched from the ati drivers to vesa but that did not help at all. I am running on a 5 years old Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop with Radeon Mobility 7500(details in lspci-vvnn.log provided in link below), with 256MiB of RAM. http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21840367/dmesg.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21840491/lspci-vvnn.log uname -a yields: Linux lordmetroid-laptop 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/367372/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
