polld - on the lose
angelb at bugarin.us
angelb at bugarin.us
Fri Sep 17 10:55:39 PDT 2004
Hi all.
This has been happening for sometime now on different systems running
with the same OS, Solaris, and the same CUPS version, 1.1.18.
We'd get a call from our users reporting they can't print anymore. When I go into the client and do an "lpstat -a", there are no printers listed. And when I do a "ps -ef|grep -i cups", I noticed the polld is
accumulating a good amount of cpu time and its constantly increasing.
See the following:
sapds02f# while :;do
> ps -ef|grep -i cups|grep 12.65
> sleep 1
> done
polld is eating-up CPU time:
cups 5601 5579 20 Sep 09 ? 1748:37 cups-polld 10.208.12.65 631 30 631
cups 5601 5579 21 Sep 09 ? 1748:38 cups-polld 10.208.12.65 631 30 631
cups 5601 5579 21 Sep 09 ? 1748:39 cups-polld 10.208.12.65 631 30 631
cups 5601 5579 21 Sep 09 ? 1748:40 cups-polld 10.208.12.65 631 30 631
cups 5601 5579 21 Sep 09 ? 1748:41 cups-polld 10.208.12.65 631 30 631
cups 5601 5579 21 Sep 09 ? 1748:42 cups-polld 10.208.12.65 631 30 631
cups 5601 5579 21 Sep 09 ? 1748:43 cups-polld 10.208.12.65 631 30 631
after stop/starting cupsd(it's back to normal):
cups 26135 26105 0 12:22:24 ? 0:00 cups-polld 10.208.12.65 631 30 631
cups 26135 26105 0 12:22:24 ? 0:00 cups-polld 10.208.12.65 631 30 631
cups 26135 26105 0 12:22:24 ? 0:00 cups-polld 10.208.12.65 631 30 631
cups 26135 26105 0 12:22:24 ? 0:00 cups-polld 10.208.12.65 631 30 631
cups 26135 26105 0 12:22:24 ? 0:00 cups-polld 10.208.12.65 631 30 631
cups 26135 26105 0 12:22:24 ? 0:00 cups-polld 10.208.12.65 631 30 631
cups 26135 26105 0 12:22:24 ? 0:00 cups-polld 10.208.12.65 631 30 631
cups 26135 26105 0 12:22:24 ? 0:00 cups-polld 10.208.12.65 631 30 631
cups 26135 26105 0 12:22:24 ? 0:00 cups-polld 10.208.12.65 631 30 631
Can anyone tell me what's going on here? How often does the polld daemon poll the server for printers?
Is there a bug in .18 that causes the process to runaway and should I upgrade to .20?
Any suggestion is much appreciated.
Thanks!
Angel
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