Bug 504590

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SUMMARY
I have many large projects I work on, such as the Linux kernel. Unfortunately, if I do something like a large git update, each instance of Kate will spawn a process to sort the ctags, and this takes an enormous amount of memory, bringing my workstation to a crawl. My workstation has 128GiB of RAM and 32 cores, so it's quite powerful. When calling sort it should limit how much memory it uses.  On Linux, this can be done using the -S option.  In addition, it would be nice if it could also use parallelism.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Have one or more large projects open
2.  Perform an operation, i.e., git, that updates a lot of files
3. Watch computer slow to a crawl as it pages like crazy

OBSERVED RESULT


EXPECTED RESULT


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
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(available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window)
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I'm not sure if Kate is the right place to put this. I mostly use KDevelop, which uses Kate underneath.