[okular] [Bug 388854] Okular uses a very large amount of RAM for caching

[Rooty]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388854

--- Comment #31 from Rooty <zycho at gmx.us> ---
(In reply to Albert Astals Cid from comment #28)
> I'm not going to answer further in this bug because i don't feel compelled
> to have a discussion with people that saying things like "no way a 90kb PDF
> can take XX Mb of memory" as if they knew anything about they are talking
> about.
> 
> *BUT* this may actually be a manifestation of "glibc is useless and doesn't
> actually free memory when you tell it to" that i workarounded at
> https://cgit.kde.org/okular.git/commit/
> ?id=95bc29a76fc1f93eaabe5383d934644067dfc884
> 
> If this is the case one may need to add more malloc_trim around and not only
> when the document is closed, but i totally don't feel like being dragged to
> discuss with people that have no clue what they're talking about and have no
> respect for people that give them stuff for free.

"no respect for people that give them stuff for free"? "don't know what you're
talking about"? for real? i meant no disrespect, i don't even use okular but i
was trying to direct you to something that clearly bears closer examination.
there are a myriad of other PDF readers out there we could be using but we're
still here, reporting bugs/problems in okular. think long and hard about what
that means with respect to the appreciation we show for the software you make.
that being said, all of this is a moot point. it's taking up a lot more RAM
than any other PDF reader (i'll leave you to decide whether that's
appropriate).

i'm sorry i can't help you out more, i know how to report a bug, but the
diagnostics is beyond me (not an IT guy).

thanks @Tobias for fleshing it out

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