Re: evince and linux-embedded devices

[Vlad Vasiliev <vlad gas by>]

Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
> El lun, 31-03-2008 a las 08:33 +0300, Vlad Vasiliev escribió:
>   
> > Dear developers of evince.
> >
> > There is a problem in using evince and linux-embedded device Nokia n810
> > http://europe.nokia.com/n810 . This device has only 128 Mb RAM . Evince
> > consumes a lot of memory when open some pdf files and as a result it's
> > got killed my OOM killer.  An example of such file is here:
> > http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ruth/ICAPSWorkshop/paper2.pdf
> > This file has very big image (more 90Mb) on third page.After opening
> > this file evince consumes a lot of memory.
> > The evince (IMHO) does not corrected work with memory.
> > The reason of this could be that evince allocated two blocks of memory
> > for the same.
> > To catch the issue I used valgrind with options: --tool=massif --depth=50
> > valgrind --tool=massif --depth=50 evince -p 3 paper2.pdf
> > for diagnostic problem.
> > Please find the report file attached (massif.out.29236). You can view it
> > using ms_print utility from valgrind.
> > This report shows double allocation of memory for image.
> > What do you think is it really double memory allocation issue or not?
> > I also prepared fix for that and it worked for me on N810 just fine.
> > But I'm still not sure if it's 100% correct. I'd really appreciate if
> > you look at the attached patch and tell me if it's correct or not.
> >     
>
> The problem of the images has been already fixed in evince 2.22. In any
> case we'll continue working on improving memory consumption  for evince
> 2.24. 
>
>   
Thanks Carlos for your help.

Vlad
Vasiliev