[cups.general] Re: Bad performance with large job history

[anthony at alperts.com]

Here's what RedHat had to say about the problem;

Hi there,
The cnnnnnn numbers within the cups spool directory are used as part of cups abailaty to keep a history of files printed.

Within the file /etc/cupsd.conf you can change the two following options to change the cupsd behaviour :

PreserveJobFiles No
PreserveJobHistory No

by default cups does not preserve Files, but it does preserve a history, so setting the history to no should stop these files from being kept.

You will need to restart the cupsd service for the change to take effect.

Michael Sweet wrote:
> Anonymous wrote:
> > ...
> > I guess the cancel command is part of the 'system' and that is
>  > the proper way to do this.  Or does it matter ?
>
> The "rm" command removes the job history from disk but not from
> memory.  The "cancel -a" command does both...
>
> In any case, MaxJobs should be limiting the number of jobs in memory
> and on disk.
>
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