Bug 3394

Summary:	evince eats a huge amount of memory rendering Page 10 of this file.
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Phil Armstrong <phil>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Kristian Høgsberg <krh>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	pvillavi, sylvain.pasche
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
URL:	http://www.tfl.gov.uk/streets/downloads/pdf/LRSR/Topic_Factsheets/Pedal-Cyclist-Casualties-04-05.pdf
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	pdf which causes the problem generated postscript pdf which causes the problem (example 2)

Description Phil Armstrong 2005-05-25 02:16:39 UTC

Evince needs well over a gigabyte of memory to render page 10 of this file.

xpdf chews up a lot of CPU, but only needs 12Mb of memory. Looks like there's a
memory leak somewhere...

I'm guessing this is a poppler bug, but will happily refile against evince
itself if you think otherwise!

Comment 1 Phil Armstrong 2005-05-25 02:18:00 UTC

Created attachment 2774 [details]
pdf which causes the problem

Attached pdf

Comment 2 Jeff Muizelaar 2005-06-03 18:57:57 UTC

hits drawImageMask a lot of times

Comment 3 Sylvain Pasche 2005-08-09 04:17:12 UTC

Same problem here with the following Pdf file:

http://mct.sbb.ch/mct/fr/print/parkandrail.pdf

Comment 4 Patrick Pletscher 2005-09-09 22:46:32 UTC

Created attachment 3216 [details]
generated postscript

The postscript file which results from printing within evince.

Comment 5 Patrick Pletscher 2005-09-09 22:51:43 UTC

Big sorry, the postscript above has nothing to do with this bug (but rather with
3391), but I don't know how to delete an entry? Thanks

Comment 6 Sylvain Pasche 2005-09-10 04:38:17 UTC

Created attachment 3218 [details]
pdf which causes the problem (example 2)

Attached the second pdf document to show the problem, and obsoleted the wrong
attachement.

Comment 7 Daniel Holbach 2006-01-19 23:58:29 UTC

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/28942 with attached
.pdf exposes the same symptoms.

Comment 8 Werner Meisner 2007-01-12 14:01:15 UTC

I using poppler-0.5.4 an have the same Problem
Viewing 20 pages takes about ~512MB

File:
http://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-H.222.0-200002-I!!PDF-E&type=items

Comment 9 Pedro Villavicencio 2008-02-25 08:18:19 UTC

Same problem with the following pdf: 

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12175282/emboj00075-0354.pdf

Comment 10 Martin Wolf 2008-08-20 12:10:46 UTC

Seems to be related to 16878

Comment 11 Phil Armstrong 2008-12-31 07:46:47 UTC

This appears to be fixed in evince 2.22.2. These pdfs still take some time to render, but they no longer chew through huge amounts of memory to do so.

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