[cups.general] High CPU usage and BrowsePoll

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Wed Sep 15 08:28:36 PDT 2010


On Sep 15, 2010, at 2:58 AM, Niels S. Eliasen wrote:
> ...
> BUT... doing a "ps -ef|grep cups"
> 
> root 24874     1 10 11:27 ? 00:00:55 /usr/sbin/cupsd
> lp   24907 24874  0 11:27 ? 00:00:00 cups-polld 172.xx.xxx.10 631 30 631
> lp   24908 24874  0 11:27 ? 00:00:00 cups-polld 172.xx.xxx.11 631 30 631
> 
> am if I am not grossly mistaken...
> the "30" is the BrowseInterval ... in other words.... my 
> specification does not take effect!
> and yes! I have restarted cups after changing to value 
> "BrowseInterval 0" ..


Setting BrowseInterval to 0 disables broadcasts but still uses a poll interval of 30 seconds (since a poll interval of 0 seconds would mean continuous polling - not good...)

Try setting BrowseInterval to 3600 and BrowseTimeout to 86400.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair




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