[hardy] severe memory leak opening PDF

[Gavin McCullagh]

Binary package hint: evince

I've just downloaded a PDF to the desktop. When I open it with evince, evince's RAM usage spirals rapidly until I needed to kill it.

By comparison xpdf, while not terribly quick opening it, works fine.

libby@hector:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"
libby@hector:~$ apt-cache policy evince
evince:
  Installed: 2.21.91-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.21.91-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.21.91-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 24 20:38:34 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: evince 2.21.91-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCwd: /home/libby
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux hector 2.6.24-8-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 14 20:40:45 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Philip Armstrong (phil-ubuntu)]

Created an attachment (id=2774)
pdf which causes the problem

Attached pdf

[Jeff Muizelaar (jeff-infidigm)]

hits drawImageMask a lot of times

[Sylvain Pasche (sylvain-pasche)]

Same problem here with the following Pdf file:

http://mct.sbb.ch/mct/fr/print/parkandrail.pdf

[Patrick Pletscher (pat-pletscher)]

Created an attachment (id=3216)
generated postscript

The postscript file which results from printing within evince.

[Patrick Pletscher (pat-pletscher)]

Big sorry, the postscript above has nothing to do with this bug (but rather with
3391), but I don't know how to delete an entry? Thanks

[Sylvain Pasche (sylvain-pasche)]

Created an attachment (id=3218)
pdf which causes the problem (example 2)

Attached the second pdf document to show the problem, and obsoleted the wrong
attachement.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/28942 with attached
.pdf exposes the same symptoms.

[Weme24 (weme24)]

I using poppler-0.5.4 an have the same Problem
Viewing 20 pages takes about ~512MB

File:
http://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-H.222.0-200002-I!!PDF-E&type=items

[Gavin McCullagh (gmccullagh)]

Binary package hint: evince

I've just downloaded a PDF to the desktop. When I open it with evince, evince's RAM usage spirals rapidly until I needed to kill it.

By comparison xpdf, while not terribly quick opening it, works fine.

libby@hector:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"
libby@hector:~$ apt-cache policy evince
evince:
  Installed: 2.21.91-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.21.91-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.21.91-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 24 20:38:34 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: evince 2.21.91-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCwd: /home/libby
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux hector 2.6.24-8-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 14 20:40:45 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Gavin McCullagh (gmccullagh)]

credit should go to Dr. Elizebeth Turner for discovering this bug :-)

[TerryG (tgalati4)]

Works fine under Gutsy and evince 2.20.1, so this would be a regression.

[Niklas Vanhainen (niklas-vanhainen)]

I can confirm this, I tried it with other pdfs as well, all resulted in massive memory usage up to 450 MB memory for a 2 MB pdf while xpdf uses less than 10 MB.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Same problem with the following pdf:

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12175282/emboj00075-0354.pdf

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

I've added the pdf to bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3394 ; thanks for reporting.

[TerryG (tgalati4)]

Document still opens fine without memory leaks under latest poppler (2.06) on Gutsy with all updates.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

the bug is about the hardy version not the gutsy one, thanks.

[PazO (pazoman)]

Seems to be related to 16878

[Philip Armstrong (phil-ubuntu)]

This appears to be fixed in evince 2.22.2. These pdfs still take some time to render, but they no longer chew through huge amounts of memory to do so.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

this is fixed now, it takes a few time to load but it doesn't leak.