I'm sorry! checked again on my intrepid system and got same results as you. Thinking that it maybe would be solved in the latest evince svn and poppler git i tried to compile it with also the same results.
4152 pazo 20 0 43764 17m 10m S 14.6 1.8 0:00.44 evince 4152 pazo 20 0 566m 514m 11m S 76.9 51.0 0:02.75 evince 4152 pazo 20 0 566m 174m 11m S 35.2 17.3 0:03.82 evince 4152 pazo 20 0 566m 209m 11m S 89.2 20.8 0:06.50 evince 4152 pazo 20 0 54112 20m 11m S 55.9 2.1 0:08.18 evince I also noticed that evince would use this high amount of memory when zooming in and out. -- Evince memory leak on PDF file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251898 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs