Re: Abiword cannot load *.txt file

From: Martin Sevior (msevior@seviorpc.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Oct 13 2003 - 22:56:20 EDT

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    On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 11:44, Walt Shekrota wrote:
    > On Monday 13 October 2003 07:26 pm, Jonathan wrote:
    > > Abiword 2.0
    > > FreeBSD 4.8
    > > compiled from ports
    > > gcc-2.95.4
    > > ORBit2-2.8.2
    > > freetype2-2.1.5_1
    > > fribidi-0.10.4_1
    > > autoconf-2.53_1
    > >
    > > I tried to load a 1.5 MB text file with Abiword 2.0 and it consummed
    > > almost all my swap space ( used 255 Mb in one case). Here is the relevant
    > > section from top:
    > > ________________________
    > > last pid: 19934; load averages: 2.09, 1.96, 1.88 up 0+03:31:10
    > > 18:04:25
    > > 74 processes: 5 running, 69 sleeping
    > > CPU states: 93.3% user, 0.0% nice, 6.7% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0%
    > > idle Mem: 96M Active, 14M Inact, 37M Wired, 5888K Cache, 25M Buf, 636K Free
    > > Swap: 304M Total, 94M Used, 210M Free, 30% Inuse, 64K In, 228K Out
    > >
    > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
    > > 14608 fbsd 52 0 108M 61364K RUN 2:38 47.27% 47.27%
    > > AbiWord-2 ________________________
    > > The size is 108MB. I tested this in Kde 3.1.4 and in GNOME-2.4.1. It
    > > happens in both cases. Could one of the Abiword users be so kind and see if
    > > this happens in Linux also?

    Oh, I should state that AbiWord CVS HEAD has many speed improvements
    over 2.0

    Martin

    > >
    > > To reproduce:
    > > 1) Go to http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html and download the emacs-21.2
    > > manual.
    > > 2) After unzipping it, load it into Abiword 2.0 from either the xterm or
    > > from File->Open.
    > > 3) After a few minutes Abiword will have not loaded the document. I also
    > > notice that it will do it if I just copy and paste the EMACS tutorial from
    > > a text editor to Abiword.
    > >
    > > Kind regards,
    > > Jonathan
    > >
    >
    > gentoo
    > kde 3.0.3
    > abi 2.0.0
    > Hmm I get similar from that file loading but I experimented with some random
    > text files of size
    > 14xxxxx
    > and
    > 17xxxxx
    > (1603875 yours)
    > and they both loaded. Can repetition in characters affect this or are my tests
    > valid and conclusion this is unique to emacs txt file for some reason?
    > -Walt
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