Guillaume Rousse wrote:
I'm unable to print a complete document at once.
Printer output 20 first pages, then stop. I've tried to print following page by specifying a range in xpp, but all i got are two to six pages bunch each time, whereas full document is 196 pages long...
Document is a pdf file converted to ps by pdf2ps.
Guillame,
This may at first sound dumb-- BUT, the PDFs I print take up huge amounts of RAM and it looks like CUPS is not calling for swap memory as needed, or ghostscript is not, or the lpd is not. I typically run into this when top says that I have less than ten MB RAM open (of 1 GIG) and find that resetting cups by force fixes:
service -f cups
About 7\8 of the time, every apparently hung job then merrily comes out of whichever of my my printers it is sent to. I think this may be at least partly a RAM and lpd issue, not a pure CUPS issue(though cups locks, it may not be code in cups itself, it may simply be seeing a paused printer as lpd hangs for lack of work space in RAM). Can't prove it, but the same things for the same reasons have happened in a lot of other operating systems and on other platforms and there sometimes the PORT driver had to be unlocked by reinitializing and things then sometimes continued.
I have gone into top and found mutliple instances of:
parallel
cups
lpr
running when this happens, and usually fully restarting the cups service as above fixed this also usually.
John Danielson.
--- Begin Message ---Guillaume Rousse wrote:I'm unable to print a complete document at once.Guillame,
Printer output 20 first pages, then stop. I've tried to print following page by specifying a range in xpp, but all i got are two to six pages bunch each time, whereas full document is 196 pages long...
Document is a pdf file converted to ps by pdf2ps.
This may at first sound dumb-- BUT, the PDFs I print take up huge amounts of RAM and it looks like CUPS is not calling for swap memory as needed, or ghostscript is not, or the lpd is not. I typically run into this when top says that I have less than ten MB RAM open (of 1 GIG) and find that resetting cups by force fixes:
service -f cups
About 7\8 of the time, every apparently hung job then merrily comes out of whichever of my my printers it is sent to. I think this may be at least partly a RAM and lpd issue, not a pure CUPS issue(though cups locks, it may not be code in cups itself, it may simply be seeing a paused printer as lpd hangs for lack of work space in RAM). Can't prove it, but the same things for the same reasons have happened in a lot of other operating systems and on other platforms and there sometimes the PORT driver had to be unlocked by reinitializing and things then sometimes continued.
I have gone into top and found mutliple instances of:
parallel
cups
lpr
running when this happens, and usually fully restarting the cups service as above fixed this also usually.
John Danielson.
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