Comment 11 for bug 138343

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.