Bug#945188: xpdf: memory leak when changing page
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Control: found -1 3.04-14
On 2019-11-21 00:05:56 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> When one changes the displayed page (e.g. with PageDown or PageUp),
> xpdf takes more memory, even if the page has already been displayed
> (thus this is not due to caching).
>
> For instance, consider /usr/share/pari/doc/users.pdf from pari-doc.
> It starts with 32 MB. And each time I do a PageDown or PageUp, it
> takes an additional 16 MB.
I still get the same problem, while the patch at
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=945188#10
was fixing the issue.
On a PDF file with big images, this quickly makes the machine start
swapping.
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