Public bug reported: When viewing a particular file, attached to this bug report, evince causes my entire system to go unresponsive due to very high memory use. The pdf does eventually show, but in the process, memory usage appears to rise up to 900 MB or so on my system, and presumably the use of the swap file to account for this large amount of memory is what is causing the system to be unresponsive.
xpdf has no problem opening the file. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: evince 3.2.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Oct 11 11:22:33 2011 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: evince UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-27 (13 days ago) ** Affects: evince (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apparmor apport-bug oneiric running-unity -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/872075 Title: possible evince memory leak, system unresponsive with high iowait To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/872075/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs