Description of problem: Doing a search in evince increases its memory footprint significantly. Performing another search does not release the memory for the previous search, so evince just keeps growing and growing until closed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evince-3.10.3-1.fc20.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open some large PDF (I noticed this looking at the C++ standard) 2. ps u | grep evince 3. In evince, search for a word that occurs frequently 4. ps u | grep evince 5. Notice that evince is using much more memory 6. In evince, search for a word that never occcurs 7. ps u | grep evince 8. Notice that evince is using slightly more memory 9. In evince, search for the first word again 10. ps u | grep evince Actual results: The evince process grows with each search. Expected results: The process should not grow after the first search, since the subsequent searches are no larger. Additional info:
Hi, I've backported a patch which fixes the leak. Thank you for reporting this. Regards Marek
evince-3.10.3-2.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/evince-3.10.3-2.fc20
Package evince-3.10.3-2.fc20: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing evince-3.10.3-2.fc20' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-15454/evince-3.10.3-2.fc20 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
evince-3.10.3-2.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Much better, thanks!