Comment 1 for bug 80438

Just opening a reasonably sized file (3k) on my laptop from my desktop (ssh://wlach@192.168.0.9/home/wlach/foofile) from gedit seems to work reasonably quickly. Furthermore, I don't think gedit is trying to get information about recently used remote files when it starts up. After having opened several remote files and restarting gedit, I see nothing in an strace of gedit (or gnome-vfs-daemon) that indicates it is.

This doesn't mean that the problem you're seeing doesn't exist, just that we need more information in order to know how to reproduce it. Providing an strace of gedit (and/or gnome-vfs-daemon? not sure if it might be involved) when you see this abberant behaviour would probably be where I'd start.