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Bug 587406 - attaching a 6mb pdf file causes evolution to choke taking more than 600MB of memory, while composing an e-mail
attaching a 6mb pdf file causes evolution to choke taking more than 600MB of ...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 339135
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.28.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
evolution[attachments]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-06-30 08:55 UTC by vincenzo_ml
Modified: 2013-09-13 01:05 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.27/2.28


Description vincenzo_ml 2009-06-30 08:55:52 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:
1) I have a 6mb pdf file which consists of scanned pages. 

2) I try to attach it to an e-mail in evolution

3) evolution becomes unresponsive and top shows it's taking up to 600mb and growing. After some time I manage to kill it from a terminal, the system trashing for too much swap. 

The same does not happen with 6mb of random data (courtesy of /dev/urandom). I am not going to attach the file here since it is copyrighted material, but I can surely provide the file privately to whoever needs it for debugging purposes. I will also see if I can reproduce with other scanned documents.


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Other information:
Comment 1 Matthew Barnes 2009-06-30 12:37:14 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 339135 ***