Out of memory on 5MB svg file opening

[Bug Importer]

Ubuntu Fesity 7.04 - Inkscape 0.45

When trying to open/convert a 5MB svg file, Inkscape allocates 800MB of my
1GB memory, all 2.5GB swap and crashes with "out of memory" message.

For comparison eog (eye of the gnome) image viewer is successfully
opening/displaying the image using 300MB of memory.

[Momat-users (momat-users)]

Originator: NO

Link to the image (generated with gnuplot):
http://tinyurl.com/2fz7yv

[Ted Gould (ted)]

EOG isn't really a good comparison in that it only has to store rendering information, and then deletes that information. Inkscape has to keep the data in memory.

Inkscape shouldn't crash, but I wouldn't expect it to open the file.

Also, could you please attach the file to this bug report? Thanks.

[Tom Davidson (tjd-mit)]

It opens here (3GB RAM, SVn rev 16978 Jan 7) without hitting swap, but there's not much to see, just the frame of a plot, and a few text labels. The red and green data points (visible under eog) are not plotted. Trying to export to PNG crashes inkscape. EOG indeed opens it in 300MB or so.

[Beluga (buovjaga)]

It opened, but very slowly on my desktop with 32GB memory and 6th gen Intel processor. It actually went outside and left Inkscape chugging.

I see the red and green data points!
Export to .png works very quickly without crashes.

Arch Linux 64-bit, KDE Plasma 5
Inkscape 0.92pre1 15054 (GTK3)

[Qantas94Heavy (qantas94heavy)]

According to comment #5, it looks like a general performance issue rather than a specific issue with the file. As a result, closing.