Unable to reserve port: Address already in use

Stef Coene stef.coene at docum.org
Fri Nov 27 15:02:25 PST 2009


> If all of the queues use lpd://... device URIs, this is a normal =
> consequence of the LPD protocol requirement that requests have to come =
> from a privileged port.  The backend will automatically retry until it =
> can get one, so this shouldn't normally be an issue.
If I'm not mistaken, I saw in the sources that each port down from 720 is tried untill a free one is found.
What if I have 720 lpd processes running because I have 720 print jobs running when there are lots of  printers down?


Stef




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