Public bug reported: Evince eats all CPU and all memory, while opening certain types of documents. I've noticed that this reproducible with PDF documents produced with LaTeX but not with other types of PDF documents.
The culprit seems to be a process called evince-thumbnailer. Even after closing the document that causes this, evince-thumbnailer continues to work in the background and keeps eating CPU and RAM memory. If this process is killed, it restarts itself and continues hogging CPU and memory. I attach a file causing this and the stacktrace I produced. I'm reproducing this in two different systems of mine. Workaround: Open the dconf editor, navigate to "org.gnome.desktop.thumbnailers" and set the key "disable" to "['application/x-dvi']". ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: evince 3.14.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-28.38-generic 3.16.7-ckt1 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-28-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Sat Dec 27 09:31:22 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-28 (393 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1) SourcePackage: evince UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-09-08 (109 days ago) ** Affects: evince Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Affects: evince (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug utopic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1405912 Title: Evince eats all CPU and all memory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evince/+bug/1405912/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs