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Cursor lag on Ubuntu - likely during file indexing

#1

I’ve been using ST2/3/4 on Ubuntu for many years without any issues.

In the last day or so I’ve started to see significant lag (transient 200-400ms freezes) when moving the cursor around with the keyboard.

I thought it might be due to the Terminus plugin which i had installed recently – but the problem remained when I removed the plugin.

Eventually, the problem disappeared … and my current suspicion is that a recent build I did (dropping a large quantity of generated source code files into the working directory tree) would likely have caused the ST4 indexing process to start running - and that may well have been the thing causing the lag.

Glad it’s not happening now, but it was SUPER annoying for several hours, especially before I figured out why. I even went so far as to install and start using VSCode instead.

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#2

File indexing is done fully asynchronously on separate processes. Unless it was using all system resources I don’t see how it could affect the application. Have you tried starting ST in safe mode and opening the same folder/project?

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