cups-polld uses 99% cpu time

angelb angelb at bugarin.us
Wed Jun 28 07:38:41 PDT 2006


> Hello,
>
> I've configured a cups printsystem with 2 servers and about 200 clients
> connecting via cups 1.1 and samba.
> The clients are configured to poll the 2 servers for printers. But one
> server cups-server is the main server. The other one cups-backup is the
> backup server. But cups isn't running on cups-backup due to issues with
> the accounting system we use.
> So the clients poll there printers from cups-server and get a 'unknown
> host' error.
> We went "live" this morning and by now we had about 10 complaints that
> the cups-polld process uses 99% cpu time. After taking a closer look it
> seems like it was the poll process which polls cups-server (the one that
> is running) is the one uses that much cpu time.
>
> What can be the cause of this?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Michael De Vlaminck

Quick fix: upgrade or install CUPS 1.2.1

I've also ran into the same issue and CUPS 1.2 appears to have the
fix.

Good luck.

Angel






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