Very high memory consumption (over 300 megas) and CPU (95% 30 sec) to open a PDF

[Ricardo L. Febrero]

Binary package hint: evince

I'm using Ubuntu Hardy on a 32bit machine. The document is a PDF generated from an HTML file with Firefox, but the same applies to Opera, Epiphany...

Evince consumes about 350megas of memory, then hangs and I have to wait 30seconds (up to a minute) for getting it to work again. If I move across the document, or magnify it, or anything else, I have to wait again, so it's impossible to do any work with it.

I attach both documents, original HTML and generated PDF. Additionally, I don't understand why the PDF generated is so large.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jan 4 17:45:02 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
Package: evince 2.22.2-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-22-rt i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

same issue with intrepid, but that's more like a poppler issue, reassigning and will look upstream, thanks.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

there is several bugs about similar issues, bug #38674, bug #182414, bug #256894