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Bug 605948 - Evince uses too much memory
Evince uses too much memory
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: backends
2.29.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-01-03 08:52 UTC by thenasko
Modified: 2010-01-03 14:32 UTC
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Description thenasko 2010-01-03 08:52:12 UTC 
I am running evince 2.29.3-0ubuntu1 on Lucid (though this particular problem has been around for a while). When keeping several documents (all pdf, ps, dvi work) for a prolonged period of time the viewer starts taking up a lot of memory.

For example, I currently have 2 dvi and 1 ps files open, all relatively small (sizes 9kb, 19kb, 192kb), yet evince takes up 350mb of memory. It does not seem like this is or should be the normal behavior.

Information on this bug is also available on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/491531. For example, I attached a valgrind log there.
Comment 1 Chris Coulson 2010-01-03 14:32:51 UTC 
As discussed on the downstream report, this seems to be a poppler issue rather than an evince one.