Ubuntu
evince package

maybe mem leak

Bug #154526 reported by Dominik Holler
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evince (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

can anyone open
http://www.tfh-berlin.de/~rudolph/signale/skripte/SuS_SS06/Shannon_Limit.pdf
in gutsy's evince ?

looks like a memory leak, xpdf can view the file

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Albert Damen (albrt) wrote :

The documents opens fine in Gutsy AMD64, with 4 GB RAM. It just uses a lot of memory (580 MB virt when it is open, more during opening the document). However, on Gutsy i386 in vmware with 512 MB ram it seems to open, but crashes after a while, while the hard disk is busy swapping. According to top I still had plenty of swap space available.
Error message when opening the document from the command line:
cairo context error: NULL pointer
Killed

An attempt to debug with gdb failed; the complete vmware system got locked, the mouse didn't move and no access through ssh.

Changed in evince:
status: New → Confirmed
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Albert Damen (albrt) wrote :

Sorry, forget the line about plenty swap: swap actually goes down to 0 during the process.
The document opens in 512 MB ram if nothing else is running (still giving the cairo NULL pointer message), it breaks when firefox is open (on google).
In Feisty, with evince 0.8.1-0ubuntu1, the document only takes 53 MB (virt) to open. In Feisty I don't get the cairo NULL pointer message.

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Albert Damen (albrt) wrote :

This turns out to be a duplicate of bug 138343, which is already known upstream.

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