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Save All has speeded up a quite a bit since Ubuntu 24.04.4 reinstallation

#1

On web dev projects I’d have quite a few (~ 20) HTML files open as well as big .js and .css files.

After running a Save All, I used to see the saving process advance slowly through my edited tabs through the changing of the pencil icon to an x at the top right corner of the tabs.

Lately a fresh system install was done for my Ubuntu 24.04.4 op system.

Now the Save All is near instantaneous - this despite having my op sys running on an external hard drive. (SSDs are sure getting pricey, folks !)

I was wondering why this is so.

At present I run ST 4200. As far as I know, there was no change to the ST version since before I reinstalled my Ubuntu.

I admit that I have seen other benefits to my PC performance since the reinstall, especially to the stability of the windows manager.

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#2

Saving speed of many files significantly depends on size of ST’s session file as it persists it to disk between each file save operation. A new setup likely starts with a smaller session file.

for details see:

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#3

I’ll monitor this as I go on.

Even now, the session file is quite large at 304 kB.

Looking through it, I am shocked to see that it’s keeping records of changes to files that I recently made. In fact MOST of the session file is a record of recent edits to projects.

At this rate the session file will be jammed in weeks.

What do I do to stop this senseless retention of old edits ? If rollback is needed I can use Git.

There’s a system design error in the retention of old edits in a session file - which wouldn’t be the place for such things anyhow.

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#4

Sublime Text only keeps undo history of open files, and that history is limited to 128kB per file. My many years old session is only 434kB.

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#5

Glad to hear it.

I’ll have to keep an eye on this.

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