Bug 60901

Summary:	High memory consumption (which leads to OS freeze) on previewing/opening of attached pdf file
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	cpacchierotti
Component:	cairo backend	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	pdf file which make Evince request all the memory

Description cpacchierotti 2013-02-15 15:08:32 UTC

Created attachment 74873 [details]
pdf file which make Evince request all the memory

Every time I try to open or even just preview on Nautilus the pdf file
attached, Evince starts demanding all the memory. This leads to a complete freeze of the OS if you don't have enough memory (it requests ~4G of RAM).

On Evince's bigzilla (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693869) this was recognized to be poppler's problem and it was affecting multiple users.

Info:
poppler-0.20.2-9.fc18.x86_64

Linux localhost.localdomain 3.7.6-201.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 4 15:54:08 UTC
2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Fedora 18



Thank you,

Comment 1 Jose Aliste 2013-02-15 15:13:21 UTC

seems to be  a cairo backend bug. In my machine, with poppler-glib-demo uses more than 4GB to render the file. pdftoppm is almost instant without high memory consupmtion. pdftocairo also uses a lot of memory (but seems less than poppler-glib-demo)

Comment 2 Adrian Johnson 2014-11-01 05:40:45 UTC

pdftocairo uses 6GB of memory to render the pdf. After applying the patch in bug 33364 it uses 16MB.

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

Use of freedesktop.org services, including Bugzilla, is subject to our Code of Conduct. How we collect and use information is described in our Privacy Policy.