Slow and Laggy When Renderring Large PDFs in Zotero 7.0.15

edited 7 days ago
System: Windows 11
CPU: i7-11700
RAM: 32GB

I am about to open a large paper (82 pages) available at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.12944 on Zoreto, and find it becomes slow and laggy after a few seconds.

My library has a total number of about 500 papers and I only opened two of them, including the aforementioned paper.

It was fine when I read other papers but when opening that 82-page document caused significant memory fluctuations ranging from 1GB - 7GB, leading to overall sluggish performance.

Is this a common issue, and if so, how can I resolve it? Thank you so much!
  • Hi, here is the debug id: D1987313941
  • Can you reproduce this with all third-party plugins disabled?
  • edited 7 days ago
    Thank you for your reply.

    In my case, the issue continues even after disabling the only third-party plugin (Translate for Zotero).

    The scrolling speed of the pdf document has increased, but it got sluggy after a few seconds/minutes.
    Selecting and highlighting text remains slow, taking approximately 3-5 seconds on average.
    Over time, the application often becomes unresponsive and fails to handle operations within acceptable time limits.
    Memory usage: 1GB - 4GB
    Is the program experiencing a memory leak? I'm unsure.
    The debug id is: D128343894
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