gedit took longer, but it's now showing square text symbols and reported this on command line (but hasn't been terminated yet):
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file (yelp:6780): Pango-WARNING **: 00:51:46.064: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Sans 11' (yelp:6780): Pango-WARNING **: 00:51:46.064: font_face status is: out of memory (yelp:6780): Pango-WARNING **: 00:51:46.064: scaled_font status is: out of memory (yelp:6780): Pango-WARNING **: 00:51:46.064: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='PangoFcShapeEngine', font='DejaVu Sans 11', text='●' Failed to get the memory usage Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file Failed to create shared memory: Too many open files -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367372 Title: Gedit uses 100% of the CPU while editing files To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/367372/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs