Bug 421091

Summary: High memory usage
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: nilsocket <nilsocket>
Component: PDF backendAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: aacid, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: KSysGuard screenshot

Description nilsocket 2020-05-05 23:03:07 UTC
Created attachment 128187 [details]
KSysGuard screenshot

Okular is using way too much of memory

Steps to reproduce:
Open any PDF file, and scroll through the document for sometime.

It even crossed 6GiB in my-case.
In comparison, I tested doing the same with Evince, at max it crossed 300MiB and it is much more faster.

Okular Version: 1.10.0

Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.69.0
Qt Version: 5.14.2
Kernel Version: 5.6.8-arch1-1
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM

Thank you.
Comment 1 2wxsy58236r3 2020-05-06 08:57:43 UTC
Have you tried adjusting the memory usage settings in Okular? You can choose from "Low", "Normal", "Aggressive" and "Greedy".
Comment 2 nilsocket 2020-05-06 11:08:21 UTC
With "low" setting it isn't crossing 300MiB.

Information which I reported is with "Normal" setting.

Thank you.
Comment 3 2wxsy58236r3 2020-05-06 11:57:01 UTC
(Clearing the NEEDSINFO flag)
Comment 4 Albert Astals Cid 2020-05-06 19:49:05 UTC
Not a bug, memory is there to be used.
Comment 5 nilsocket 2020-05-06 22:25:59 UTC
(In reply to Albert Astals Cid from comment #4)
> Not a bug, memory is there to be used.

Yes memory is there to be used, but it's inappropriate to use 6GiB for a single pdf, under "normal" setting.

Thank you.
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2020-05-07 15:24:57 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 388854 ***