GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 656798
Opening svg 1.1 file via Eye of GNOME consumes tremendous resources
Last modified: 2012-01-18 11:28:05 UTC
1) lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 11.04 Release: 11.04 2) apt-cache policy eog eog: Installed: 2.32.1-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 2.32.1-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 2.32.1-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3) What is expected to happen in Eye of GNOME via the Terminal: cd ~/Desktop && wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/384566/+attachment/602159/+files/CodigoGray4Bits2.svg && eog CodigoGray4Bits2.svg is it opens quickly and successfully. 4) What happens instead is eog consumes a tremendous amount of system resources, making all other programs very sluggish and unusable until the eog process is terminated. The file passed the W3C Validator ( http://validator.w3.org/ ) as svg 1.1.
That's a known problem with SVGs exported from OpenOffice/LibreOffice causing eog allocate way to much memory. There's no really sane fix for that currently. Personally I hope it might go away once eog doesn't need any (fullscale) pixbuf representation of SVGs anymore. --------- 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 bug 340963 ***