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Bug 517566 - Eats up all virtual memory on specific file
Eats up all virtual memory on specific file
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 512438
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: PDF
2.20.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-02-19 22:53 UTC by fabio passarini
Modified: 2008-02-20 08:43 UTC
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Description fabio passarini 2008-02-19 22:53:46 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #512438 +++

[ From http://bugs.debian.org/461788 by Stanislav Maslovski ]

"Download this pdf: http://vt100.net/tektronix/4014-um/4014-um.pdf and open it with evince. Try to navigate in the document (pressing PageDown for ex.), you will notice how fast memory gets consumed. Soon evince will eat up all available virtual memory and will be killed by the kernel.

This is vmstat output (almost) at the moment when evince gets killed by the kernel:
(This machine has 512 Mb RAM and ~720 Mb of swap)

$ vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
 2  4 707552   5072    624  13888   10   93   161   125  485  740  5  1 92  2"

I have the same problem downloading the same files as above. Also I have the same problem with tiff format files.
Comment 1 Carlos Garcia Campos 2008-02-20 08:43:58 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 512438 ***