Public bug reported:
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)
** Affects: evince (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apparmor apport-bug focal
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memory leak when annotating PDFs
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