Ubuntu
foomatic-filters package

  1. Bug #463059
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 463059

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Raimund Sacherer (hatrix) wrote : Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

Affects me as well, printing a PDF takes for ages, often more then 20 minutes, at times it seems hours (i print another way, say, give the pdf to a friend, and sometime in the afternoon my document get's printed) ...

one core of the cpu get's totally hogged

printer is a network printer, lexmark X342n, cups config:
MakeModel Lexmark X342n Foomatic/pxlmono (recommended)
DeviceURI lpd://192.168.0.155/PASSTHRU
State Idle
StateTime 1260521511
Type 8400916
Filter application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -
Filter application/vnd.cups-postscript 100 foomatic-rip
Filter application/vnd.cups-pdf 0 foomatic-rip
Filter application/vnd.apple-pdf 25 foomatic-rip
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy retry-job