Opening the pdf file at the URL with gpdf causes gpdf to consume more
and more virtual memory eventually crashing the system and requiring a
hard reset.

This is reproducable as follows:

1) Download the file.
2) Open a terminal and run top.
3) Open a terminal and run gpdf Novell-52.pdf.

I see gnome-pdf-viewer immediately allocating ~ 600MB and continuing
to allocate memory until the system starts thrashing. Eventually, X
abruptly hangs and all disk activity ceases. I suspect that the kernel
has crashed at this point.

I've tried killing -9 gpdf & gnome-pdf-viewer during the thrashing
phase but the system still goes on to lock up.

This is with gdpf-0.131-2 & kernel-2.6.8-1.521smp. My system has 768MB
real memory & ~ 488MB of swap.