Package: zathura
Version: 0.3.1-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainers,
There is a memory leak in zathura. Steps to reproduce:
1. Open a PDF file (e.g. output generated by LaTeX)
2. Scroll
3. Refresh the PDF (e.g. by recompiling the LaTeX document)
(You might have to do a forward / inverse search in between to trigger
it.) I'm not "cool enough" to valgrind. But I monitored memory usage
using
ps -o pid,vsz,pmem,pcpu,tty,cmd --sort -pmem,-pcpu -C zathura
After about an hour of work (on a 2 / 3 page paper without any figures)
the memory usage of zathura rises from a footprint of about 1.5% (about
50MB) initially to 20% (about 750MB) by the end of the hour.
This is possibly fixed upstream here:
https://git.pwmt.org/pwmt/zathura/commit/876d35de943b16de7b8a218065a0a7409b383634
Thanks and best,
GI
PS: I marked severity as normal since I didn't know if the correct
section for higher severities. It does make Zathura unusable on my
system though.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages zathura depends on:
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1
ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1
ii libgirara-gtk3-1 0.2.3-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.14.5-1+deb8u1
ii libmagic1 1:5.22+15-2
ii libpoppler-glib8 0.26.5-2
ii libsqlite3-0 3.8.7.1-1+deb8u1
ii libsynctex1 2014.20140926.35254-6
zathura recommends no packages.
Versions of packages zathura suggests:
ii chromium [www-browser] 47.0.2526.80-1~deb8u1
ii google-chrome-beta [www-browser] 48.0.2564.48-1
ii iceweasel [www-browser] 38.5.0esr-1~deb8u2
ii konqueror [www-browser] 4:4.14.2-1
ii poppler-data 0.4.7-1
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-19
pn zathura-cb <none>
ii zathura-djvu 0.2.4-6
ii zathura-ps 0.2.2-6
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