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[bug] Windows: Sublime freezes and is impossible to kill it after you modify large number of files outside of Sublime #1582

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jakub-g opened this issue Feb 1, 2017 · 6 comments
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[bug] Windows: Sublime freezes and is impossible to kill it after you modify large number of files outside of Sublime #1582

jakub-g opened this issue Feb 1, 2017 · 6 comments
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jakub-g commented Feb 1, 2017 •
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Summary

When you modify outside of Sublime a large number of files that were opened and modified but unsaved in Sublime, the editor freezes, and it's impossible to kill it with Task Manager, Sysinternals Process Explorer, or taskkill /f.

You can see in Task Manager that Sublimes takes 12% of CPU (i.e. 1 full core on my 8 CPU machine).

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Windows 7, Sublime 3 build 3126 (was happening also in a slightly older build)

Steps to reproduce

I had ~40 files opened, ~25 of them are localization JSONs (in many multiple languages, including Thai,
Arabic, etc. not sure how relevant this is but maybe it is)

The files had changes that I did manually, but those changes were unsaved.

Then, by mistake, I ran a bash script that modified those 25 files outside of Sublime.

When I went back to Sublime it started asking me for each file if I want to reload it or not.
But after several answers, Sublime becomes non-responsive. It's impossible to kill it via taskkill /f. The only way is to try to log off and have Windows kill it.

I tried rebooting Windows and Sublime many times but every time result was the same.

Workaround

I had to delete Auto Save Session.sublime_session to get rid of the problem. The file was 360kB before deleting.
@jakub-g jakub-g changed the title [bug] Windows: Sublime freezes and is impossible to kill it after you modify large number of files outside [bug] Windows: Sublime freezes and is impossible to kill it after you modify large number of files outside of Sublime Feb 1, 2017
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I set "always_prompt_for_file_reload": true, in my preferences, created 40 files, opened them in ST and typed into them, and then updated the files externally, and ST prompted if I wanted to reload each one. I didn't suffer any hangs or anything, though others have reported similar problems on a Mac: #1443

I did notice that if I double click an answer button, then occasionally somehow ST would stop showing the message boxes until I click in ST again. (I'm also using Win 7 x64 BTW.)
Could it be that you had multiple ST windows open at once, that has been known to affect things: #1303

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jakub-g commented Feb 1, 2017

Could it be that you had multiple ST windows open at once, that has been known to affect things:

Yes, I had two ST windows open, though the second one was on another screen, so I forgot about it!
I had some ~40 files in the window I was talking about and maybe 3 files in another window.

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wbond commented Apr 24, 2017

Could you try to reproduce with build 3131?

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wbond commented Jun 29, 2017

I'd be curious if you still run into this issue with build 3139. Not only was the sidebar rewritten in 3127, but in 3139 we shipped some enhancements to the filesystem notification handling on Windows.

The issue in #1443 was a macOS internal change that altered how windows were raised to the front and caused a deadlock, so it wound up being something that would not cause issues cross-platform.

@jakub-g Are you running the x64 version of Windows 7?

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jakub-g commented Jun 29, 2017

Hi @wbond, yeah I run Win7 x64.

I'll try to check soon with new Sublime but now I'm having a bit busy week.

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Closing due to no response.

@BenjaminSchaaf BenjaminSchaaf closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Oct 31, 2023
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