Public bug reported:
If Evince 3.18.2 (running on Xubuntu 16.04.4) loads such a pdf file (e.g. after
doubleclicking on the file name in Thunar), a few seconds later more than 3 GiB
of RAM are in use. Then memory consumption stays almost stationary for some
time to sharply rise again.
Finally you may be caught in swapping memory and becoime almost unable to
control the computer, because the cursor reacts on mouse movements only with
much time delay.
In some cases, after many minutes of heavy CPU use, finally a result is shown.
Memory consumption may be up to 6GiB for a two page grayscale pdf document and
even for a two page BW-document! In such a case, after stopping Evince, all the
memory is back again and the computer is operational as it was before.
The same documents load quickly in Firefox 59.0.2 (64-Bit) and without
excessive memory consumption.
The syndrome does not show up, if Evince shall read a single page pdf document.
But even if you add the same content into a single document (in AFR14) to make
it a two page document, the result shows the syndrome.
The syndrome does not show up with files made by AFR9.
GIMP2.8 and LibreOffice (Draw) Build-ID: 1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial3 also
suffer from the same illness for the same file. Do they all rely on the same
libraries?
If someone needs sample files to look into it, I can provide some.
It even looks like Evince claims this excessive memory already when it is
started from a command line and shows the “last opened“ view. The included
example Test AFR14_2 Seiten, beruht auf Test-AFR14_00-00_SW.tif_SW.pdf was
created with AFR14 (under Windows) by including the scanned image
Test-AFR14_00-00_SW.tif twice into the PDF file sauch that it becomes a more
than one page pdf file. After I opened Evince, it claimed 3.3GiB and just
showed the names of the last opened files with some default icons. After
waiting some minutes, the icons were filled with previews and then Evince‘s
memory consumption dropped down to 48,9 MB!
There were known errors which may or may not have the same root cause: in
Evince 0.6x, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431423 and in
Evince 2.6x, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577144.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: evince 3.18.2-1ubuntu4.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-122.146-generic 4.4.117
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-122-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.16
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Thu May 3 15:15:30 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-02-10 (81 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=de_DE
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: evince (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial
** Attachment added: "PDF file created by AFR14 by including the tif file as
two pages, i.e. including it twice to make a multipage document"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1768840/+attachment/5132959/+files/Test%20AFR14_2%20Seiten%2C%20beruht%20auf%20Test-AFR14_00-00_SW.tif_SW.pdf
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Title:
Evince 3.18.2 claims excessive memeoy when opening a multipage file
created with AbbyyFineReader14 (AFR14, runs on Windows10)
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