Bug 16878 (evince_leak) - When opening certain PDFs in evince, 500 + megabytes of memory are used
Summary: When opening certain PDFs in evince, 500 + megabytes of memory are used
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: evince_leak
Product: poppler
Classification: Unclassified
Component: cairo backend (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: high major
Assignee: poppler-bugs
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Reported: 2008-07-28 13:55 UTC by David
Modified: 2010-09-12 02:50 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Attachments
Image-heavy Microsoft pdf (testcase) (848.65 KB, application/pdf)
2008-08-17 10:58 UTC, Vinicius 		Details
Another test case (123.94 KB, application/pdf)
2008-08-20 09:36 UTC, David 		Details
Two minimal similar PDF files, one triggers the bug and the other does not (4.00 KB, application/zip)
2010-03-20 04:02 UTC, Ric Flomag 		Details
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Description David 2008-07-28 13:55:01 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:
1. Download this PDF http://www.csb.gc.ca/s40rates/2007_11_CS47.pdf
2. Open it in evince ( or using evince-thumbnail )
3. watch your memory usage carefully.

According to the responder on Gnome, the bug is in poppler. There is a file that shows memory usage of the application during the problematic time.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545201
Comment 1 David 2008-07-28 13:55:58 UTC 
I am not sure how you guys decide priority, so I put it at high. It prevents me from using the software, so according to me it should be blocker.
Comment 2 Albert Astals Cid 2008-07-28 14:35:12 UTC 
Does not happen with the splash backend, reassigning to to cairo backend
Comment 3 Carlos Garcia Campos 2008-07-29 00:42:15 UTC 
what poppler version are you using?
Comment 4 Martin Wolf 2008-07-29 02:40:25 UTC 
Version 0.6.4 and
Version 0.8.4 and
Latest from git, about 15 hours ago.
Comment 5 Vinicius 2008-08-17 10:58:42 UTC 
Created attachment 18330 [details]
Image-heavy Microsoft pdf (testcase)

I think the attached pdf file is a good testcase for this bug: in my box, evince takes up to ~840MB of ram memory to open it.
Comment 6 David 2008-08-20 09:36:03 UTC 
Created attachment 18413 [details]
Another test case

I recommend testing the bug with 512 mb of memory or less.
Comment 7 Atanas Atanasov 2010-01-03 04:49:40 UTC 
I can confirm the bug. I placed a similar report in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/491531.
Comment 8 Ric Flomag 2010-03-20 04:02:40 UTC 
Created attachment 34251 [details]
Two minimal similar PDF files, one triggers the bug and the other does not

Here is a test case (see attached file isolated-test-case.zip) that properly isolates the bug. The following 2 files were made using Inkscape (ubuntu 9.10). The only difference between them is that the image that they contain was:
 * pasted from another inkscape document (file bug.pdf, 4kb)
 * dropped from nautilus (nobug.pdf, 2.4kb).

Note the different file sizes.
I hope that these files will allow to easily track down what triggers this bug.

This bug might cause a loss of data, because a low resource 5-years-old machine (512Mb RAM) becomes totally unresponsive and the only way to stop evince or evince-thumbnailer is to hard reset the computer.

Regards,
Ric.
Comment 9 Ric Flomag 2010-09-12 02:49:36 UTC 
Fixed here with poppler 0.14.2 (ubuntu 10.10 beta)

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