[cups.general] Where does CUPS store kB and page countaccounting information?

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Wed Nov 7 16:15:56 PST 2007


Paul wrote:
> ...
> Since this "internal cache" has to be persistent across machine or
> daemon restarts (i.e. the page and kB counts are persistent), cupsd
> has to write these to disk at some point. Are you, probably,
> suggesting that the only information that is persistently stored by
> cupsd is in the /var/spool/cups/c* files?

Yes, we don't store the totals, we just read the data from the
(persistent) job control files which are updated during the life of
a job.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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