CUPS error_log says Max Clients Reached,cups slow

[Michael Sweet]

ed smith wrote:
> About once every 3 weeks, users complain that "CUPS is slow".(Other factors eliminated),  the 2 indicators that always occur when this happens are:
> 
> 1) CPU time for the CUPS daemon runs higher than normal.
> 2) The /var/log/cups/error_log has the following warnings/errors:
> 
> E [16/Nov/2005:04:08:29 +0600] Unable to accept client connection - No buffer space available.
> E [16/Nov/2005:04:12:43 +0600] Unable to accept client connection - No buffer space available.
> E [16/Nov/2005:08:33:29 +0600] Unable to accept client connection - No buffer space available.

This generally means that you've run out of kernel space for a new
socket.  Check your kernel tunable parameters to see if you can
increase the amount of memory that is allocated for network buffers.

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