Bug#461788: evince: eats up all virtual memory until gets killed by the kernel

[Stanislav Maslovski]

Package: evince
Version: 2.20.2-1
Severity: normal

Download this pdf: http://vt100.net/tektronix/4014-um/4014-um.pdf and open
it with evince. Try to navigate in the document (pressing PageDown for ex.),
you will notice how fast memory gets consumed. Soon evince will eat up all
available virtual memory and will be killed by the kernel.

This is vmstat output (almost) at the moment when evince gets killed by the kernel:
(This machine has 512 Mb RAM and ~720 Mb of swap)

$ vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
 2  4 707552   5072    624  13888   10   93   161   125  485  740  5  1 92  2

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (90, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-minimal (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii  gconf2                 2.20.1-2          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme       2.20.0-1          GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gs-afpl [gs]           8.53-0.2          The AFPL Ghostscript PostScript in
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.19-3          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.20.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.20.2-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.20.0-1          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.7-5             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.4.10-1          The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.1.2-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.74-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdjvulibre15         3.5.20-2          Runtime support for the DjVu image
ii  libgconf2-4            2.20.1-2          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.2-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.14.3-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0      2.20.3-1          GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0            2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.20.1.1-1        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.20.1-1        GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.1-1          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62              6b-14             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libkpathsea4           2007.dfsg.1-2     TeX Live: path search library for 
ii  libnautilus-extension1 2.18.3-3          libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.10-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.18.4-1          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpoppler-glib2       0.6.2-1           PDF rendering library (GLib-based 
ii  libpopt0               1.10-3            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                 2:1.0.3-1+b1      X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6             4.2.2-4           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtiff4               3.8.2-7           Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libx11-6               2:1.0.3-8~custom1 X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                2.6.30.dfsg-3.1   GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-8  compression library - runtime

evince recommends no packages.

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