[cups.general] Problem with LARGE jobs finishing

[Minatra, Pat H.]

We are now starting to have problems with large jobs finishing.  We have
a 2 Mgb print job that will not finish.  It has been in queue for over
12 hours and keeps restarting.  We did NOT have this problem until we
changed our FilterLimit variable in the cupsd.conf file in /etc/cups.
Prior to that, the value of FilterLimit was at 0 (i.e. unlimited) and it
was choking our cpu almost to a dead stand still.  We changed the value
to 500 and had immediate improvement; now, about a week later, the large
jobs are not processing as they should.

I am not sure which way to turn on this as I could go open up the
FilterLimit to 0 but then my users would not be able to work and the job
would complete in a most timely manner.  Since I do not know and have
not been able to find out what the FilterLimit specifically addresses
(swap file or something else?), I do not know what to do or how to
handle.

Can anyone help me please?

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