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Bug 475612 - evince consumes a lot of memory (1.5 GB VM)
evince consumes a lot of memory (1.5 GB VM)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 504913
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: PDF
2.19.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-09-10 21:14 UTC by Pedro Villavicencio
Modified: 2008-05-06 04:46 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20


Description Pedro Villavicencio 2007-09-10 21:14:24 UTC 
This bug has been filled here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/138343

"Binary package hint: evince

steps to reproduce:

1. open http://www.physik.tu-muenchen.de/lehrstuehle/T39/T39_files/Lectures_files/QuantumMechanics2007/QM07_Kap7.pdf
2. add "zoom in" and "zoom out" buttons to your toolbar (i'm not sure if this is really needed, but I reproduced the problem in this way)
3. switch on continous-mode
4. scroll (slowly) to the bottom of the document
5. click on "zoom in" till zoom level reaches 200 %
6. scroll (slowly) to the top of the document

result:
evince consumes about 1,5 GB vm-memory (600 mb writeable).
system becomes very slow.

If the steps do not work for you, try zooming in and out again.
I verified this with compiz running, 1 GB physical RAM, 2 GB swap."
Comment 1 arron_ferguson 2008-03-22 00:43:31 UTC 
Confirmed here. I would strongly urge the powers to be that the status should be CONFIRMED and the priority and severity be posted to high since this bug cripples Evince from viewing PDF files - basically unusable.
Comment 2 Alexander Kojevnikov 2008-05-06 04:29:33 UTC 
I think this bug report is a duplicate of bug 504913, which supposedly was fixed in the trunk.
Comment 3 Akhil Laddha 2008-05-06 04:46:21 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into
our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you
find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 504913 ***