Bug#516957: eog: EOG complains about insufficient memory before allocating the most memory possible.

[B. Bogart]

Package: eog
Version: 2.22.3-2
Severity: normal

When opening very large images eog gives a message about there being insufficient memory.
This happens once eog has only allocated about 30% of available memory (4GB on this machine).
Should not eog only complain that there is insufficent memory when its tried to allocate all it can?

See attached screenshot, which shows the small RAM spike, and the RAM available (via free in the terminal).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages eog depends on:
ii  gconf2                     2.24.0-7      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme           2.22.0-1      GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  libart-2.0-2               2.3.20-2      Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libc6                      2.9-3         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.8.6-2       The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.80-3        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexempi3                 2.1.0-3       library to parse XMP metadata (Lib
ii  libexif12                  0.6.16-2.1    library to parse EXIF files
ii  libgconf2-4                2.24.0-7      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.3-1     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.18.4-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2         2.22.3-2      Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0                2.20.1.1-2    The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.20.1.1-2    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             1:2.22.0-5    GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.12.12-1     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjpeg62                  6b-14         The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liblcms1                   1.17.dfsg-1   Color management library
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.1.5-2     X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                    2.6.32.dfsg-5 GNOME XML library
ii  python2.5                  2.5.4-1       An interactive high-level object-o
ii  shared-mime-info           0.30-2        FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa

Versions of packages eog recommends:
ii  librsvg2-common               2.22.2-4   SAX-based renderer library for SVG

eog suggests no packages.

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