To improve responsiveness and perceived performance, jEdit executes all buffer input/output operations asynchronously. While I/O is in progress, the status bar displays the number of remaining I/O operations.

The Utilities>Troubleshooting>I/O Progress Monitor command displays a window with more detailed status information and progress meters. By default, the I/O Progress Monitor is shown in a floating window. This window can be docked using the commands in its top-left corner popup menu; see the section called “Window Docking”. I/O requests can also be aborted in this window, however note that aborting a buffer save can result in data loss.