[Printing-architecture] CUPS STR #4521: Unexplained high CPU use by cupsd on Linux...

[Michael Sweet]

Pascal,

> On Dec 2, 2014, at 2:43 PM, Pascal Obry <pascal at obry.net> wrote:
> 
> Le mardi 02 décembre 2014 à 11:35 -0500, Michael Sweet a écrit : 
>> All,
>> 
>> We've received several bug reports about cupsd using 100% CPU, either on startup or after connecting/turning on a printer:
>> 
>>    https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4521
>> 
>> I cannot reproduce myself, but was hoping someone more familiar with all of the helper programs running on Linux might be able to shed some light on this?
> 
> Isn't this that the issue with the /tmp filling bug?
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-config-printer/+bug/1156398
> 
> There was a similar bug reported on Debian.

I have reports of this with CUPS 2.0.1 which has the fix for the permissions issue, so that should not be the same issue unless system-config-printer is bypassing the cupsGetPPD API.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair

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