PDF plugin uses huge amounts of memory

[zp]

I'm on rev 92.

Here is the file:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1149078/Equipment%20%26%20Machine%20power%20supply.pdf

Results in a huge spike to RAM used.

Probably because you are keeping all the pages that have been viewed in RAM for faster viewing later.

We should only have a few pages in RAM. I suggest 10 pages up and below the current page you are looking at.
Similar to Evince. They display "Loading..." on pages that aren't fully rendered.

[BadChoice (guitarboy000)]

And what about when we're on page 40, keep the previous 30 pages loaded, or unload them?

I load All pages now for fast viewing (and loading) but yes, it taks so much ram :D so we need to decide.
We can load pages dinamically.

3 options:

   1. All pages in memory (never load nor unload)
   2. load 20 Pages and the nexts dinamically when needed (load when needed, never unload)
   3. Just have 20 pages loaded (unload and load when needed)

[zp (zekopeko-deactivatedaccount)]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:07 PM, BadChoice <email address hidden> wrote:
> And what about when we're on page 40, keep the previous 30 pages loaded,
> or unload them?
>
> I load All pages now for fast viewing (and loading) but yes, it taks so much ram :D so we need to decide.
> We can load pages dinamically.
>
> 3 options:
>
>   1. All pages in memory (never load nor unload)
>   2. load 20 Pages and the nexts dinamically when needed (load when needed, never unload)
>   3. Just have 20 pages loaded (unload and load when needed)
> --
> PDF plugin uses huge amounts of memory
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/505644
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> of the bug.
>

How about:

Page we are viewing and 5-10 pages up and down?
That should be reasonable. And don't keep stuff in memory expect those
pages we rendered. The point is to make ram usage small.
Evince loads pages pretty fast for me. So no point in keeping all the
pages in memory.

[Alexandr Grigorcea (cahr-gr)]

there is also a memory leak
just created a folder with two pdfs 108K (15 pages) + 165K (25pages) and started switching from one to another after a couple of switches memory usage is >35%
a fresh open for every file uses ~4% each

opening big pdfs and switching, after a couple of files the whole system goes in thrashing

rev.173, the same with rev. 154