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Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml) wrote : [karmic] attaching a 6mb pdf file causes evolution to choke taking more than 600MB of memory, while composing an e-mail

I have a 6mb pdf file which consists of scanned pages. I try to attach it to an e-mail in evolution but it becomes unresponsive and top shows it's taking up to 600mb and growing. The same does not happen with 6mb of random data (courtesy of /dev/urandom). I am not going to attach the file here since it is copyrighted material, but I can surely provide the file privately to whoever needs it for debugging purposes.