[cups.general] lpstat consumes a complete CPU in cups 1.4.8
Michael Sweet
msweet at apple.com
Tue Nov 20 07:57:40 PST 2012
Paul,
If you can reproduce reliably by running lpstat at the same time as sending SIGHUP to cupsd, please do file a bug with strace output for the affected PIDs.
On 2012-11-20, at 12:16 AM, Paul Conklin <paul.conklin at cerner.com> wrote:
>>> Weve notice lpstat consuming a full CPU occasionally. Any ideas as to a cause or what we could look at? its on RHEL 5.5 x86_64.
>>>
>>> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
>>> 15692 d_p0165 25 0 98.9m 2472 1884 R 100.0 0.0 9397:25 lpstat
>>> 26241 d_p0165 25 0 98.0m 2464 1884 R 100.0 0.0 9408:05 lpstat
>>>
>> here are the corresponding pids at the os level
>>
>> d_p0165 15692 15667 99 Nov13 ? 6-12:59:43 lpstat -plp62
>> d_p0165 26241 26181 99 Nov13 ? 6-13:10:23 lpstat -ppahcass1
>>
> Looking through my notes for this time, and every other time this is happened, it appears it always seems to co-incide with a cups reload / restart. should I file this as a bug for lpstat? the last time there was a reload was on the 13th. same date as the "zombie" lpstat's"
>
> grep reload /var/log/cups/error_log
>
> I [13/Nov/2012:10:08:12 -0500] Full reload is required.
> I [13/Nov/2012:10:08:12 -0500] Full reload complete.
> I [13/Nov/2012:10:53:22 -0500] Full reload is required.
> I [13/Nov/2012:10:53:22 -0500] Full reload complete.
> I [13/Nov/2012:11:04:02 -0500] Full reload is required.
> I [13/Nov/2012:11:04:02 -0500] Full reload complete.
>
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