Bug#500359: evince memory use is to big, keeps increasing until it fails

[Sven Arvidsson]

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thanks

On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 14:36 +0200, Jelle de Jong wrote:
> I use evince on lots of small clients with 512MB DDRII, This should be
> engoung in my case. However when using evince to open large pdf files
> like schematics and datasheets, it just keep caching the pdf files
> until there is no more memory, the system tries to start swapping and
> normal work is not possible anymore untill evince is killed with
> force. KPDF does not have this problem, but I would really like to be
> able to just use evince to open pdf and djvu files. Also when chaching
> the zoom the memory use can increase so fast, evince dies in seconds
> after there is no more memory. See the attached screenshot. Thanks in
> advance.

Hi,

This is known bug, see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303365
for more info.

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
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