cups-polld uses 99% cpu time

[Michael De Vlaminck]

Helge Blischke wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
yes, and 2 cups-polld processes

Michael