cups-polld uses 99% cpu time

[Helge Blischke]

Michael De Vlaminck wrote:
> 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

Is a cupsd running on the clients?

Helge


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