User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060924 Firefox/1.5.0.7 Build Identifier: by reading some pdf evince does not free correctory the memory Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. download http://www.imladris.immaginario.net/risorse/tdm/sindarin/Gobeth-1.0.zip 2. open the pdf file with evince 3. read 10-15 pages Actual Results: $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 502 496 6 0 0 21 -/+ buffers/cache: 475 27 Swap: 243 243 0 Total: 746 740 6 $ top 6264 evellon 15 0 709m 450m 6840 S 0.0 89.7 0:08.28 evince # tail /var/log/messages -n 100 Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0 Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn [<c0136c7e>] out_of_memory+0x27/0x141 Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn [<c0137f69>] __alloc_pages+0x1db/0x25a Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn [<c01392e5>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0xcf/0x205 Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn [<c0112fb0>] __wake_up_common+0x2a/0x4a Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn [<c013621c>] filemap_nopage+0x164/0x32c Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn [<c013e37a>] __handle_mm_fault+0x23b/0x746 Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn [<c010f674>] do_page_fault+0x18a/0x47e Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn [<c010f4ea>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x47e Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn [<c0102e1d>] error_code+0x39/0x40 Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn Mem-info: Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn DMA per-cpu: Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn cpu 0 hot: high 0, batch 1 used:0 Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn cpu 0 cold: high 0, batch 1 used:0 Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn DMA32 per-cpu: empty Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn Normal per-cpu: Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn cpu 0 hot: high 186, batch 31 used:7 Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn cpu 0 cold: high 62, batch 15 used:10 Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn HighMem per-cpu: empty Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn Free pages: 5200kB (0kB HighMem) Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn Active:61215 inactive:61168 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:1300 slab:1947 mapped:54 pagetables:319 Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn DMA free:2068kB min:88kB low:108kB high:132kB active:5224kB inactive:4984kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:11447 all_unreclaimable? yes Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 495 495 Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn DMA32 free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 495 495 Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn Normal free:3132kB min:2800kB low:3500kB high:4200kB active:239636kB inactive:239688kB present:507264kB pages_scanned:197304 all_unreclaimable? no Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:128kB high:128kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn DMA: 1*4kB 0*8kB 1*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2068kB Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn DMA32: empty Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn Normal: 1*4kB 39*8kB 8*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3132kB Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn HighMem: empty Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn Swap cache: add 84622, delete 84606, find 1104/1714, race 0+0 Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn Free swap = 0kB Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn Total swap = 249440kB Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn Free swap: 0kB Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn 130912 pages of RAM Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn 0 pages of HIGHMEM Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn 2213 reserved pages Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn 2171 pages shared Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn 16 pages swap cached Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn 0 pages dirty Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn 0 pages writeback Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn 54 pages mapped Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn 1947 pages slab Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn 319 pages pagetables Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn Out of Memory: Kill process 5842 (bash) score 196127 and children. Sep 24 22:36:21 galvorn Out of memory: Killed process 6007 (evince). # eix evince * app-text/evince Available versions: 0.4.0-r3 ~0.5.0 0.5.1 0.5.3-r1 ~0.5.4 ~0.5.5 ~0.6.0 Installed: 0.5.3-r1 Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/ Description: Simple document viewer for GNOME Provides: none License: GPL-2 # emerge --info Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.18 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:20:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo/" LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8" LINGUAS="" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/overlay /usr/local/portage/guglie_overlay /home/evellon/doc/dev/gentoo/overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X ace acpi alsa apm bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt cups divx4linux dlloader dri dvd dvdread elibc_glibc emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kernel_linux libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmx2 motif mp3 mpeg mps ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl png pppd python qt3 quicktime rar readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_radeon vorbis win32codecs xml xmms xorg xv xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I was able to read the whole document. Memory usage remained constant throughout. Are you sure it's a leak, and not just using a lot of memory? Can you try the most recent (0.6.0) version of evince, to see if it still has the problem for you?
(In reply to comment #1) > Are you sure it's a leak, and not just using a lot of memory? I think you are right, it seems more that the program is using a lot of memory, but it's normal that evince requires 90% of 746 Mb Memory and that I can't even use my wm or open a terminal to kill the program because of that? I tried evince-0.6 and I got the same problem. Then I tried kpdf, and it full the memory, too. I haven't got problems by reading the same pdf with gv: $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 502 116 386 0 0 57 -/+ buffers/cache: 59 443 Swap: 243 51 191 Total: 746 168 578 I'm not sure that this is still an evince bug: is maybe something in my system bad configured?
Well, I have 2 GB, which is why I was probably able to open it fine. That said, it's not a nice thing to use all your RAM. There's work underway to fix this, but evince is still a 0.x release, so it's not surprising it has some warts. Could you re-file this bug upstream in http://bugzilla.gnome.org ? If you don't want to, I can do it. I can even mirror the PDF, if necessary.
(In reply to comment #3) > Well, I have 2 GB, which is why I was probably able to open it fine. How much memory does evince full on your system? > Could you re-file this bug upstream in http://bugzilla.gnome.org ? Done: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357846
Here, on evince 0.6.0 and poppler 0.5.3, it takes ~200MB virtual, 25MB resident, and 13MB shared. That's a lot, but it's less than openoffice frequently takes.
I'm also having the same problem using kpdf, so it must be poppler's fault.
I don't think this is a bug, and much newer versions of evince are stable, so closing.
