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salous

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Registered: 2009-03-09

Posts: 25

epdfview severe memory leak issue

Today I open one of my pdf file with epdfview,
and I find out that when I set the zoom preference to "zoom to width" and resize the epdfview window,
it eats shit load of my memory and does not free it after resizing,
I keep resizing it and it turns out to eat all of my free memory, which is 2GB,
this is just incredible, one pdf viewer eating 2GB of my memory!!
I tried lots of my pdf files and they all suffer the same issue,
so I guess this issue is not caused by wicked pdf files,
can anyone please confirm this issue?

Last edited by salous (2009-09-02 14:27:39)

grey

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-08-23

Posts: 679

Re: epdfview severe memory leak issue

I can confirm this. epdfview also doesn't free up memory after you open a new document.

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salous

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Registered: 2009-03-09

Posts: 25

Re: epdfview severe memory leak issue

For those who tried to find an ideal PDF viewer and failed,
I find out that Okular is a very good option,
yeah, I know it's fat,
but it's the most usable and stable(at least it doesn't eat shitload of memory) open-source PDF view I've ever used,
I have tried evince too, and it's has the same memory leak issue, just like epdfview.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: epdfview severe memory leak issue

salous, gray - please report the bug upstream.

salous

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Registered: 2009-03-09

Posts: 25

Re: epdfview severe memory leak issue

salous, gray - please report the bug upstream.

I will,
thanks for providing the link!