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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

sachit, thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to
make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been
fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Vivid Vervet.

This is a significant bug in Ubuntu. If you need a fix for the bug in
previous versions of Ubuntu, please perform as much as possible of the
SRU Procedure [1] to bring the need to a developer's attention.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1287124

Title:
  memory leak in evince: using gigabytes of ram when selecting text

Status in evince package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  When I select text in a certain pdf, evince consumes hundreds of MBs
  to a few GBs of RAM. This ram is not freed on deselection. High CPU
  usage accompanies the RAM allocation.

  version: evince 3.4.0
  OS: ubuntu 12.04 fully updated.

  Steps to reproduce: Open the pdf I have attached and attempt to select
  around a page of text. Keep a system monitor or a terminal open so you
  can kill it easily if your system freezes for lack of RAM.

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