GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 521036
Evince locks all and uses much memory
Last modified: 2008-05-06 05:01:59 UTC
Please describe the problem: Once I opened a .pdf and wanted to zoom in (300%) the application Blocks my whole Desktop or more precisely after long time of waiting for my pc to switch programm I can stop it by killing the process. Once I let the PC run on its own and was afk for about 45 minutes the terminal said something about evince receiving a X-Windows error. I pasted completely error-report in the more information box. And since it crashed the first time its impossible to open a document ( I tried some .pdf s and once a printing preview out of kpdf) because on every lunch of document it wants to scale it to 300% but block. After some minutes the system monitor showed me that evince uses about 270 mb of memory. Perhaps the system block has something to do with a fast incrising number of memory the application uses. Steps to reproduce: 1. Starting Evince 2. Opening a *.pdf (about 7 mb) 3. Scaling to 300% Actual results: The Desktop is blocked and it takes some time to open the terminal or system monitor for killing it. Otherwise the application throws the below mentioned error-report. Expected results: The Document scaling to 300% without using such a great amount of memory (or what ever happens) and almost blocking my pc Does this happen every time? since first time scaling to 300% yes. Because when opening a document it always tries to zoom it in. Other information: he program 'evince' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'. (Details: serial 6287 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
Does your PDF contains scanned images? If so it's probably a duplicate of bug 504913, which presumably was fixed in the trunk.
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 ***