Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1862549 Title: memory leak when annotating PDFs Status in evince package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When annotating PDFs or scrolling through larger PDFs that contain lots of annotations, evince claims a large amount of memory and never releases it. This becomes especially apparent when using the highlight feature, i.e. highlighting various parts of the text on the PDF. On a 12-page PDF, not annotated, evince used about 35 MB of RAM and claimed an additional 30 as soon as I used the highlight feature the first time, then this repeats with about the same amount or more for each additional highlight. The interface starts to lag visibly the more memory is allocated. Occasionally, the memory usage goes down by a few percent when scrolling, but it tends to allocate more and more memory until the system runs out of memory. Using the same 12-page PDF with about 100 highlighted lines and quickly scrolling through the document multiple times, evince reached about 6 GB of memory usage in less than one minute. This issue also makes closing documents very slow, taking about 5 to 10 seconds for each gigabyte of memory allocated. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: evince 3.34.1-1build1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-12.15-generic 5.4.8 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-12-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu16 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sun Feb 9 23:13:02 2020 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-01-30 (10 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Alpha amd64 (20200124) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/zsh SourcePackage: evince UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1862549/+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