Bug#926501: xpdf: continuousView memory leak
Package: xpdf
Version: 3.04-13
Severity: normal
With continuousView enabled by ~/.xpdfrc containing
include /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc
continuousView yes
Viewing a medium to large document such as
xpdf /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/bash.pdf
and paging through it with space or page-down, results in the xpdf
process using apparently ever growing memory, as shown by top or
memstat. Resulting in thrashing the swap etc etc after a while.
This is a regression over 3.04-12 where continuousView was ok.
"continuousView no" is still ok now.
I like continuousView for the scroll bar giving a visual guide to
document position, and for repositioning to some guessed or proportional
position.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en_GB:en (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages xpdf depends on:
ii libc6 2.28-8
ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-4
ii libpaper1 1.1.26
ii libpoppler82 0.71.0-3
ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-4
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1
ii libxm4 2.3.8-2
ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1+b2
Versions of packages xpdf recommends:
pn cups-bsd <none>
ii gsfonts-x11 0.26
ii poppler-data 0.4.9-2
ii poppler-utils 0.71.0-3
ii sensible-utils 0.0.12
xpdf suggests no packages.
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