[cups.general] Unable to create job status pipes - Too many open files.

Joost Cogels joost at versdirect.nl
Thu Mar 16 09:59:16 PST 2006


Michael Sweet wrote:
> Joost Cogels wrote:
>> ...
>>> We are indeed using raw queues.
>>
>> Mike,
>>
>> Below you find output from lsof -p PID. It looks like CUPS is not 
>> closing opened files. Any ideas about what could be causing this?
> > ...
>
> Hmm, I'll do some testing here, but the cupsdStartJob() function is
> pretty good about cleaning up after itself - might just be leaking
> fds on error?
>
> Can you open an STR on this so we can properly track the issue:
>
>     http://www.cups.org/str.php
>
> Please attach a copy of your cupsd.conf, printers.conf, and error_log
> files.
>
> At the very least, we want to add a limiter (so that FilterLimit can
> work), and track down any fd leaks...
>
> Thanks!
>
Mike,

I opened an STR as you requested: STR #1491

Thank you for your help.

Regards,
Joost





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