Bug 26533

Summary:	Massive memory usage when opening certain pdf
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Eric <belcirelk>
Component:	cairo backend	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	jan+freedesktop
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Eric 2010-02-11 11:37:32 UTC

Poppler uses a lot of memory to open a pdf file and makes the computer unusable (using evince or epdfview frontend). The problematic pdf is here : http://beliweb.net:8080/~eric/vague_sans_caveoles_fr.pdf.

I am using default ubuntu installation. 

The pdf is made with Inkscape 0.47.

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2010-02-11 12:23:48 UTC

I confirm the cairo test program wants to take more than 2gb of memory and then my computer starts to die, the qt4 test program takes 5mb of memory.

Comment 2 Adrian Johnson 2014-11-01 05:57:05 UTC

pdftocairo uses 1.6GB of memory to render the pdf. After applying the patch in
bug 33364 it uses 26MB.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 33364 ***

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