Hello,
I search a file for a pattern, say “abcd”. I see this occurs several times in the file but how many times? I don’t know because most of the time sublime says “Four characters selected” instead of number of occurrences.
Interestingly sometimes Sublime shows the information I look for but most of the time it is just the length of the searching pattern.
So is there some button to ask sublime to always show number of matches?
The only time I’m seeing “X characters selected” is when it’s said “X characters selected; Unable to find ABCDE” for a couple seconds first.
Thank for a reply bschaaf.
From what I see the search work find for relatively short files. However when I search 20k+ lines of a big log file, Sublime refuses to give a correct matches count and show how long the search string is… 
ST has a sanity limit for highlighting all matches in large files (16MiB) as it causes significant typing delay to search through the entire file. You can adjust this limit using the "find_highlight_matches_max_size" setting.
Update:
If I search in REGEX mode the problem is still there - the bar shows numbers of characters selected only instead of number of occurences.
I think this helped with this particular problem but now when I search entire project for some phrase I notice very high RAM usage spike (cpu is affected as well). 11Gb of RAM usage?? The project I work on is ~100 mb in size… what is going on?
It heppend even after I commented out commands like find_highlight_matches_max_size. My preferences.sublime-settings file looks like this:
{
“default_line_ending”: “system”,
“dictionary”: “Packages/Language - English/en_US.dic”,
“ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save”: false,
“always_prompt_for_file_reload”: false,
“font_size”: 11,
“show_encoding”: true,
“show_line_endings”: true,
“spell_check”: true,
“tab_size”: 8,
“theme”: “auto”,
“dark_theme”: “Default Dark.sublime-theme”,
“light_theme”: “Default Dark.sublime-theme”,
“draw_unicode_white_space”: “none”,
//“file_exclude_patterns”: [""],
//“find_highlight_matches_max_size”: 1073741824, // 1 Gb
//“find_regex_highlight_matches_max_size”: 1073741824, // 1 Gb
//“find_in_files_max_result_size”: 1073741824, // 1 Gb
“ignored_packages”:
[
“Vintage”,
],
“update_check”: false,
}
I have never experiences any performance issue with Sublime until today. As I said every search hangs.
@bschaaf, sorry for late response. No it does not happen is safe mode. Without safe mode I see sublime right after start consumes 4,5 GB of RAM and then if I search one of my open projects it jumps to 11GB for a moment and then gets down to 2GB. How can I debug what is causing it?
UPDATE: I only have two custom plugins installed - I removed one, and put the other under ignored setting. The problem is still there, why?
In task manager if you expand the ST entry you should be able to see which process is using up your CPU/memory. It’s most likely a process spawned by a plugin.
As you can see there is only one Sublime process that consumes 3,3GB or RAM. Also I have now only one plugin installed and I have disabled it from settings:
That said I have no idea how to debug it further, please help.
Have you opened your home folder, C-drive or similarly huge path? Is indexing running (Help > Indexing Status)?
No, I have 4 projects open and neither one is being indexed by sublime at the moment. They have different sizes, some of them are small ~200Mb some are 3GB directories. They include .git directory as well (that alone is ~300 MB).
When I start sublime in --safe-mode and I open that 3GB project I see sublime only consumes 80 Mb of RAM. Otherwise 3GB+. Now, I removed all the plugins, so what may cause this difference? For me Sublime is not usable anymore in normal mode as it hangs.
Please help.
Just to confirm you’re seeing this when running a find-in-files search on one of the projects and that’s what’s causing the high memory/cpu usage? Has the search completed?
To be honest, right now I see this high RAM usage spike as soon as I start Sublime. It started noticing it suddenly when I was searching the whole project. I can’t recall any particular event or change in sublime setting that could have caused it.
Is it associated with any particular window? You should be able to find out by closing windows until it goes away.
When I start sublime it opens all previously used projects (which is great), unfortunately I see that huge RAM spike right after it was started. However, if I let it stay this way (no closing of Sublime) I notice it gets back to normal ~200 Mb of RAM usage. Now the crucial point - it is enough for me to start searching the whole project for some phrase and it jumps up to 7GB of RAM!
Yes I have been able to narrow it down to a project causing this problem. But what can I do next? There is no “window” I can close other than sublime itself.
You say it opens all projects but you’re only using one window? Have you open the folders of all projects in the side-bar? What’s the indexing status (Help > Indexing Status)?
No 4 different instances of sublime. Only one is causing RAM spike. Indexing status, as I mentioned above, is always idle.
