Comment 9 for bug 195183

Binary package hint: evince

I've just downloaded a PDF to the desktop. When I open it with evince, evince's RAM usage spirals rapidly until I needed to kill it.

By comparison xpdf, while not terribly quick opening it, works fine.

libby@hector:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"
libby@hector:~$ apt-cache policy evince
evince:
  Installed: 2.21.91-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.21.91-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.21.91-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 24 20:38:34 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: evince 2.21.91-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCwd: /home/libby
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux hector 2.6.24-8-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 14 20:40:45 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux