GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 316187
Evince 'semi' crashes on specific PDF files
Last modified: 2005-10-31 01:41:19 UTC
Please describe the problem: Certain pdf files seem to cause evince to hang: use 100% cpu and I think it's leaking memory here. Steps to reproduce: 1. Download http://onderwijs.cs.utwente.nl/pdf_documenten/rooster_INF_B1.pdf 2. Open it in evince 3. Tada, 100% cpu load and memory consumption increasing drastically Actual results: Evince actually manages to display a very poor quality first page, but memory usage increases from 10MB to 20MB in half a minute, for a pdf of nearly 30kB quite a lot (the 10MB already)! I didn't wait any further but closed evince before my VM would. Expected results: Another pdf reader, for example, gv and acrobat reader display the file correctly with no problem. Does this happen every time? Yes Other information:
I see the slowness too, although here - it actually opens the file after a while. But yes - it's way to slow. I think this is a poppler bug, could you please supply the poppler version and type? I have "poppler 0.4.2 (cairo)". You can find it in the Help->About menu in Evince. There were a bunch of poppler bugs filed about this problem, with other PDF's, but their bugzilla is kind of crashed right now, so I can't point you to it.
I also have poppler 0.4.2 (cairo). I'm using the ubuntu breezy packages of gnome 2.12, my computer is an AMD Athlon 1333 MHz, 512MB RAM. Not the newest computer, but IMHO it should be fast enough to render pdf documents!
Hi, this looks like a bug with the PDF backend. Could you please follow these instructions to help get this bug fixed. Thank You. http://live.gnome.org/Evince/PopplerBugs#poppler
Reported in Poppler Bugzilla as bug 4222, closing here. Thanks for reporting this bug.