[cups.general] 1.4.3 (SunOS/sparc): canceled jobs / thousands of 'defunct' processes

[Michael Sweet]

This sounds like STR #3679, which was fixed in CUPS 1.4.5.


On Sep 20, 2011, at 6:00 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote:

>> look into these
>> 
>> PreserveJobHistory No # Files that start with cxxxxxxx
>> PreserveJobFiles No # Files that start with dxxxxxxxx
>> 
>> maybe it just isn't purging them properly.
>> 
> 
> Thanks for the hint, we will look at this in cupsd.conf;
> 
> while stop/start of cupsd (to get rid of the 'socket' backends which have been sitting around) we encountered the following dramatical situation:
> 
> the stop of cupsd with the normal stop script (which just does only a "kill pid" thousands (~10.000) of defunct processes were created:
> 
>    root  6515  5026   0        - ?           0:00 <defunct>
>      lp  6514  5026   0        - ?           0:00 <defunct>
>      lp  6513  5026   0        - ?           0:00 <defunct>
>    root  6512  5026   0        - ?           0:00 <defunct>
>      lp  6511  5026   0        - ?           0:00 <defunct>
>      lp  6510  5026   0        - ?           0:00 <defunct>
>    root  6509  5026   0        - ?           0:00 <defunct>
>      lp  6508  5026   0        - ?           0:00 <defunct>
>      lp  6507  5026   0        - ?           0:00 <defunct>
>    root  6506  5026   0        - ?           0:00 <defunct>
>      lp  6505  5026   0        - ?           0:00 <defunct>
>      lp  6504  5026   0        - ?           0:00 <defunct>
>    root  6503  5026   0        - ?           0:00 <defunct>
> 
> After re-starting cups they went away.
> 
> What does this mean?
> 
>     matthias
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