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Bug 545201 - Evince takes a very large amount of memory to load pdf document.
Evince takes a very large amount of memory to load pdf document.
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: PDF
2.22.x
Other All
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-07-28 18:29 UTC by dlublink
Modified: 2008-07-28 21:04 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22

Attachments
valgrind with massif tool (148.03 KB, text/plain)
2008-07-28 20:42 UTC, Martin Wolf 		Details

Description dlublink 2008-07-28 18:29:44 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:
1. Download this PDF http://www.csb.gc.ca/s40rates/2007_11_CS47.pdf
2. Open it in evince ( or using evince-thumbnail )
3. watch your memory usage carefully.

Once the document is open, changing window size, zooming etc... should cause the memory issue again.

Stack trace:


Other information:
This bug was produced in evince 2.22, 2.23 and as well as trunk. It is best to test the bug on a computer with 512 mb of memory or less, because if you have too much memory the PDF will eventually load. On 512mb of memory it causes serious swap thrashing and in some cases never opens.
Comment 1 dlublink 2008-07-28 18:32:52 UTC 
Related ticket https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/251898

You'll notice it wasn't actually me who tested trunk, but I did confirm the bug in the 2.22 and 2.23.
Comment 2 Martin Wolf 2008-07-28 20:42:54 UTC 
Created attachment 115453 [details]
valgrind with massif tool

running evince with the pdf
Comment 3 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2008-07-28 20:48:58 UTC 
Please report this bug in poppler bugzilla.
Comment 4 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2008-07-28 20:52:55 UTC 
Most probably poppler update or cairo update will make it fixed btw. Anyhow, thanks a lot for your time to make a bug report.
Comment 5 dlublink 2008-07-28 21:04:29 UTC 
This ticket is here : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16878