Bug#926501: xpdf: continuousView memory leak

[ziegler]

I see no memory leak in xpdf 3.04+git20210103-1.

Thanks!

Martin

Bug#926501: xpdf: continuousView memory leak

[Kevin Ryde]

Florian Schlichting  writes:
>
> confirm that your memory problem has indeed been solved?

Yes seems good for me.  (Only just updated today actually.  I'm behind the 
times!)

Bug#926501: xpdf: continuousView memory leak

[Greg Alexander]

I updated to 3.04+git20210103-2 amd64, and it's usable again!  I am still
using continuousView.  Memory usage remained below 150MB even after
extensively navigating a large PDF.

Thank you!  This is a big improvement in usability for me.

- Greg

On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 07:05:55AM +0100, Florian Schlichting wrote:
> can you please test this issue with xpdf 3.04+git20210103-1 or newer and
> confirm that your memory problem has indeed been solved?

Bug#926501: xpdf: continuousView memory leak

[Florian Schlichting]

Hi Kevin, Martin and Greg,

On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 10:06:37PM +, Adam Sampson wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Apr 2019 18:30:26 +1100 Kevin Ryde  
> wrote:
> > With continuousView enabled [...]
> > Viewing a medium to large document such as
> > xpdf /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/bash.pdf
> > and paging through it with space or page-down, results in the xpdf
> > process using apparently ever growing memory, as shown by top or
> > memstat.
> 
> I've just tested this with the latest xpopple and it seems fine, so I
> think it was caused by one (or more) of the leaks that were fixed in the
> most recent (xpopple-based) Debian xpdf package.

can you please test this issue with xpdf 3.04+git20210103-1 or newer and
confirm that your memory problem has indeed been solved?

thanks,
Florian

Bug#926501: xpdf: continuousView memory leak

[Adam Sampson]

On Sat, 06 Apr 2019 18:30:26 +1100 Kevin Ryde  wrote:
> With continuousView enabled [...]
> Viewing a medium to large document such as
> xpdf /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/bash.pdf
> and paging through it with space or page-down, results in the xpdf
> process using apparently ever growing memory, as shown by top or
> memstat.

I've just tested this with the latest xpopple and it seems fine, so I
think it was caused by one (or more) of the leaks that were fixed in the
most recent (xpopple-based) Debian xpdf package.

Thanks,

-- 
Adam Sampson  

Bug#926501: xpdf: continuousView memory leak

[Bernhard Übelacker]

Hello all,
this might be the same issue as in following bug, which
has some more information and a patch:

https://bugs.debian.org/945188

Kind regards,
Bernhard

Bug#926501: xpdf: continuousView memory leak

[Kevin Ryde]

Package: xpdf
Version: 3.04-13
Severity: normal

With continuousView enabled by ~/.xpdfrc containing

include /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc
continuousView yes

Viewing a medium to large document such as

xpdf /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/bash.pdf

and paging through it with space or page-down, results in the xpdf
process using apparently ever growing memory, as shown by top or
memstat.  Resulting in thrashing the swap etc etc after a while.

This is a regression over 3.04-12 where continuousView was ok.
"continuousView no" is still ok now.

I like continuousView for the scroll bar giving a visual guide to
document position, and for repositioning to some guessed or proportional
position.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1), 
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en_GB:en (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages xpdf depends on:
ii  libc6 2.28-8
ii  libgcc1   1:8.3.0-4
ii  libpaper1 1.1.26
ii  libpoppler82  0.71.0-3
ii  libstdc++68.3.0-4
ii  libx11-6  2:1.6.7-1
ii  libxm42.3.8-2
ii  libxt61:1.1.5-1+b2

Versions of packages xpdf recommends:
pn  cups-bsd
ii  gsfonts-x11 0.26
ii  poppler-data0.4.9-2
ii  poppler-utils   0.71.0-3
ii  sensible-utils  0.0.12

xpdf suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information