cupsd over 95% CPU utilization
josh
jsheedy at mtco.com
Wed Dec 20 08:41:38 PST 2006
Did you find a solve for this, I am not sure if I have exactly the same issue, but when I start cupsd it hit 99%.
17620 root 25 0 5744 2048 1468 R 99.2 0.4 1:19.44 cupsd
13292 jsheedy 15 0 27956 13m 10m R 3.3 2.7 0:04.53 konsole
I dont have a printer on this system, I have another system that runs cups that I am trying to connect to remotely(prints great, and XP system prints to it without issue). I will have to look into my config I guess, I just have a generic cupds.conf file.
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:10:09AM -0700, George Garvey wrote:
> > Not on purpose. Every system is running Fedora Core 2 (with one
> > exception, which is still 1) right now. lpd is not supposed to be in use. I
> > could have made a mistake. The only processes that I can see that are cups
> > related are cupsd and cups-polld. (We have two print servers that are not
> > bridged but cross a T1. It was easier to have the two servers poll each
> > other until someone gets around to briding the two networks.)
> > But this just magically started happening recently, so I'll check if
> > any system somehow was changed.
>
> It is definitely the polling that is causing the load. I removed that
> from cupsd.conf, and load went back down. I just don't understand what
> caused it to suddently change.
> Any clues what could cause polling across a T1 to need so much CPU? It
> is cupsd that is using all the CPU, not cups-polld.
>
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