[cups.general] Sense and nonsense of RIPCache

[Till Kamppeter]

On 07/27/2010 05:10 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
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>> cupsctl RIPCache=auto
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>
> Ahh, so my install does suffer from this.  Does this need to be put in ones
> rc.local, and will it survive a cupsd restart?
>
> Or does it take a restart to implement it once the above command has been
> issued?
>
> And since I have two printers, is it printer specific?
>

You run the command once and it changes cupsd.conf and afterwards 
restarts CUPS. so the change will be active immediately and stay after 
reboots.

> The only problem I have had so far was sending a targetz pdf to it from
> acroread or its recent substitute telling it I wanted 50 copies, then
> sending another I wanted 20 copies of.  My Brother laser ran out of paper,
> which caused dbus-notify to go to 99% of one core.  Adding paper, the
> printer finished the job ok, but dbus-notify stayed out in lala land, and
> killing it killed kmail and much of x.  It was easier to reboot, but
> rebooting to 2.6.35-rc6 failed to find the network, so I had to do a full
> power down and rebooted to the PClinuxOS kernel as the ati drivers work
> faster than the radeon drivers.  By about 2000  fps.
>

This looks like a bug in dbus-notify and not like a problem of 
rendering. Also multiple copies do not change the memory consumption of 
Ghostscript. Ghostscript does never hold more than one page in memory.

    Till