[cups.general] cups 1.1.7 takes a long time to reboot

[Minatra, Pat H.]

We are still on v.1.1.23 and yes, this is a known problem, however, be aware that the MaxJobs directive will NOT work correctly as it only keeps the first 500 jobs or whatever you have it set at.  As a result, we have a process that we run approximately every two to four weeks depending on what the customer wants that goes out and gets everything PRIOR to that number of days using the -mtime option.

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-----Original Message-----
From: cups-bounces at easysw.com [mailto:cups-bounces at easysw.com] On Behalf Of Michael Sweet
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 3:59 PM
To: cups at easysw.com
Subject: Re: [cups.general] cups 1.1.7 takes a long time to reboot

Biker Conrad wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I have a redhat as 3.0 (Linux javaapp2 2.4.21-37.ELsmp ) with cups 1.1.7. All the printers (12) we print to  are windows printers configured through samba. Lately we have experienced long cupsd boot times, 10-13min.
> 
> I was wondering if you have any idea what might cause these long boot times? Could it be that the windows servers are not available? Is cupsd trying to connect to the windows servers during the system boot?
> 
> If I set the LogLevel to debug2 would I be able to see what the service does?

1.1.7 is ancient.

Anyways, the long boot times might be caused by excess job history
data; removing all of the "c" files from the /var/spool/cups
directory (which, BTW, will cancel all jobs) and then stopping and
starting cups will eliminate that startup delay.

You can use the MaxJobs directive in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to set
the maximum number of jobs that are kept - the default in 1.1.7 was
0 (unlimited), while newer releases have a default of 500 jobs.

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