Extreme memory usage

MJBoa · 02-11-2010, 10:04 PM

Hey guys, I'm running Calibre on Ubuntu 9.10 x64. I downloaded the x64 package from sourceforge and I'm just running the binaries from there. Now it seems to start fine, everything works as expected. Except when I try to add a PDF or look at a PDF I've added. Within 5 seconds, memory usage for the "loader" process shoots up to the max memory on my system. Usually more than 3.5 GB!
Clearly, there's something wrong and I think it's got to do with PDFs.
So I looked here:
http://bugs.calibre-ebook.com/ticket/2996

Disabling both writing and reading metadata plugins for PDF did nothing. Plus, I want to be able to read metadata for PDFs.
Is there anything I can do?

kovidgoyal · 02-12-2010, 12:37 PM

calibre uses two libraries to read/write pdf metadata -- poppler/podofo

If you're seeing mem leaks then they are in those libraries and you should open tickets about them in their bug trackers.

02-11-2010, 10:04 PM	#1
MJBoa Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: Droid	Extreme memory usage Hey guys, I'm running Calibre on Ubuntu 9.10 x64. I downloaded the x64 package from sourceforge and I'm just running the binaries from there. Now it seems to start fine, everything works as expected. Except when I try to add a PDF or look at a PDF I've added. Within 5 seconds, memory usage for the "loader" process shoots up to the max memory on my system. Usually more than 3.5 GB! Clearly, there's something wrong and I think it's got to do with PDFs. So I looked here: http://bugs.calibre-ebook.com/ticket/2996 Disabling both writing and reading metadata plugins for PDF did nothing. Plus, I want to be able to read metadata for PDFs. Is there anything I can do?

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02-12-2010, 12:37 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,621 Karma: 28549046 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	calibre uses two libraries to read/write pdf metadata -- poppler/podofo If you're seeing mem leaks then they are in those libraries and you should open tickets about them in their bug trackers.

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