Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: evince
I'm running Gutsy, all up to date, and finding evince very slow and
erratic with large (100s of pages, 30-50MB) PDF files.
Machine triple-boots Feisty/Gutsy/WinXP; HP Pavilion with 512 MB RAM,
Athlon 64 3200+ single processor.
In Feisty evince loads large PDFs fine, changes pages smoothly. System
Monitor shows evince process uses 50-100MB with a 50MB file open and
static; this bounces up by another 2 to 50 MB when I change to a new
page, but then drops back to the same level as before.
In Gutsy (2.6.22-9-generic kernel) same file loads more slowly, system
freezes for ages before recovering. System Monitor shows evince using
250 or more MB when the 50MB file is open and static, bouncing up to
350-400 MB when I change to another page. Then the memory usage stay
high (~100%) for much longer, probably until some is paged out to swap.
The effect is that the system has no (or very little) free user memory
most of the time, which makes it very hard to use ......
Acrobat reader in WinXP behaves much more like Feisty/evince, though the
% memory used rises slowly as more pages are added to the "looked at"
stack. It never jumps to anywhere near 100%.
Both Ubuntu installs use the same swap partition, 1.4 GB; both actually
use it, according to System Monitor.
** Affects: evince (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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memory leak in evince?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132612
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