[cups.general] Cups consuming CPU

Adam Tauno Williams adamtaunowilliams at gmail.com
Tue Aug 14 08:34:34 PDT 2007


> The version of cups:
> debian:~# dpkg -l | grep cups
> ii  cupsys                           1.2.7-4          
>               Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server

I recommend you upgrade.  On RPM distributions it is pretty simple, just
"rpmbuild -ta {tarball}; rpm -Uvh ..." (or something very similar).  I
assume Debian has some equivalent.

> > > I have a big problem.
> > > When I start the cupsys the daemnon cupsd stand up
> > in
> > > CPU and it consuming all CPU.
> > > Note : the cupsys in client, not server !
> > > And when te cupsys client is up load the printers
> > in cups server.
> > You don't mention your CUPS version.  We had LOTS of
> > problems with 1.2.x
> > until the lastest 1.2.x release;  mostly related to
> > CUPS taking off and
> > chewing up CPU cycles.  It has been pretty stable
> > lately.

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Adam Tauno Williams, Network & Systems Administrator
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