tag 529826 moreinfo kthxbye On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 19:58:16 +0200, Євгеній Мещеряков wrote: > When using okular from KDE4 to view PDFs amount of memory used by > X process (VIRT as reported by top) rises from initial ~150m to > values where system becomes virtually unusable (machine has 2G RAM, > I saw values as high as 1800m). This causes a lot of swap activity, > sometimes display corruption in KDE programs (wrong colors, some bitmaps > that should not be there, bad fonts rendering...). > > This is easy reproduced with UXA. One just needs to open long PDF > file with okular and scroll it for some time. Memory usage rises quiet > fast and does not go down when okular is closed. Sometimes it helps > to open several files simultaneously. > > With EXA this is harder to reproduce. Amount of memory does not rise so fast. > Opening several files simultaneously helps. And VIRT does not go down > when files are closed. > > I think this is bug in intel driver because when I asked someone to try > to reproduce this bug on a machine with radeon graphics, VIRT values > were always below 1000m and restored to ca 730m after closing okular's. > Євгеній, can you still reproduce this with the current X stack (and kernel) in sid? If so, please report the bug upstream to bugs.freedesktop.org, following the instructions at http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html Thanks for your report! Cheers, Julien
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