#6510 NORM Never A: some PDFs cause Read to eat all available memory

[Zarro Boogs per Child]

#6510: some PDFs cause Read to eat all available memory
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  Reporter:  jpritikin      |       Owner:  rwh                              
      Type:  defect         |      Status:  new                              
  Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  Never Assigned                   
 Component:  read-activity  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
Resolution:                 |    Keywords:                                   
  Verified:  0              |    Blocking:                                   
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Comment(by tomeu):

 I have spent about 20 minutes searching for PDFs in google and trying them
 in the XO. All of them displayed correctly at 190-250% zoom and memory
 usage as reported by top was always below 30%. The reading experience
 seemed good to me.

 I'm sure we have problems displaying some PDFs, as I'm sure Acrobat Reader
 also has in some corner cases. Do you think the current Read is unsuitable
 to ship because you are finding many books that cannot be read?

 What worries me is the possibility of Read not being able to display an
 important category of PDFs. Can you give a try at characterizing the pdfs
 that display badly? Have big images embedded, a very big page size, are
 zoomed a lot, etc.

 Also, what hardware are you using? Do you have any other activities
 running along Read?

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