[cups.general] Errors sending large numbersofdocuments toprinter

[Michael Sweet]

On Mar 4, 2010, at 11:39 AM, John Lussmyer wrote:

>> On Mar 2, 2010, at 2:34 PM, John Lussmyer wrote:
>>> ...
>>> About 300GB currently free.
>>> The print jobs averaged about 3 pages each, for 2000 of them.
>> 
>> 
>> Hmm, few things to look at:
>> 
>> 1. Do you have any disk quotas/limits enabled?
>> 2. Any errors in the /var/log/cups/error_log file?
>> 3. What happens if you add a delay between job submissions?
>> 
> 
> 1) No.
> 2) No, which we thought was rather odd.
> 3) We are trying that, but won't know for sure until Monday. (Mondays are the biggest print runs where the problem usually happens.)


Let me know how that works out - you could be running into a file descriptor limit (too many open files) that can yield failed jobs without the usual logging.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair