Abiword cannot load *.txt file

From: Jonathan (j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Mon Oct 13 2003 - 19:26:10 EDT

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    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?

    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

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