I have the same on my machine. I was puzzled by the excessive use of swap on my 
laptop (amd64 with 800MB RAM) so I disabled swap and waited for something to 
fail. It happened when I was scrolling through an ADC0804 datasheet (simple 
chip datasheet with quite an amount of images). It suddenly failed to move my 
mouse easily, and shortly after Evince disappeared, and took OpenOffice Writer 
down with it. 
A next try with swap turned back on showed that Evince was using 500 MiB of 
memory (not VM, just regular memory space) which made my laptop dump half of 
it's system memory to swap, making it slow and unresponsive.

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evince consumes a lot of memory (1.5 GB VM)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138343
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