[cups.general] broken pipe?

[Michael Sweet]

On Aug 5, 2011, at 9:24 AM, Chris wrote:
> We have been using CUPS for more than a year now. I really can't begin to say thank you. It's been a tremendous help to us and made our lives much easier. So thank you! I have a number of questions I'll post separately.
> 
> Up until a week ago, we were running on an Ubuntu 10.04 box with an intel dual core and cups 1.4.3. I just switched to another box running Ubuntu 11.04 and similarly spec'd hardware with cups 1.4.6. However, we've noticed if we hit this new box with 4 jobs at once, cpu usage goes through the roof (load averages of 6 or better).
> 
> This generally slows our printer output, from say 135 ppm down to 80ppm, although typically only on one of the four printers, but more interesting to me is that we end up with a broken pipe. Let's say each of the four jobs is in the 1,000 page range and they are pdfs. The pdfs have a "workorder" merged onto the end of them. The entire 1,000 pages will print and then the workorder will fail to print with a broken pipe error?


What printers?

What drivers?

How are the printers connected? ("lpstat -v" will show)

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair