[cups.general] Re: cups-polld uses 99% cpu time

[wtautz]

Michael De Vlaminck wrote:
> angelb 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
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
> is there also a way do fix it without upgrading?
>
> thx
> Michael
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Or perhaps instead of polling the server you should relay the
printer packets to the subnets of the clients and have
them listen for the packets. Just a thought.