It's been 3 years with no sign of this bug being fixed. feh is similar to but better than eog. It can load large images ok, runs much much faster than eog, and is more featureful.
$ apt-get install feh $ feh -dZF Image-Grand_central_Station_Outside_Night_2.jpg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to eog in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/383700 Title: eog uses too much memory Status in Eye of GNOME: New Status in “eog” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: eog eog trys to open very large images. If the image is too big, the system is just swaping, and it is hard to stop it. possible solutions: - eog should not open very large images - eog could create carefuly a scaled small version of the image, and shows the scaled down version To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/eog/+bug/383700/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
