[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2010-02-02 Thread Till Kamppeter
Uploaded SRU for Karmic to -proposed, package is waiting for appreoval. debdiff of the changes is attached. ** Patch added: "debdiff with the foomatic-filters fix for Karmic" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38663178/foomatic-filters_4.0.3-0ubuntu2_4.0.3-0ubuntu2.1.debdiff ** Changed in: foomati

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2010-02-02 Thread Till Kamppeter
Everyone who wants to test the fixed foomatic-filters in Lucid, please test with the next daily live CD or update your Lucid as soon as the fixed foomatic-filters package mentioned above hits the mirrors. -- Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart h

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2010-02-02 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package foomatic-filters - 4.0.3-0ubuntu3 --- foomatic-filters (4.0.3-0ubuntu3) lucid; urgency=low * debian/patches/10_foomatic-rip-use-poppler-pdftops-with-cups.patch: CUPS manipulates $PATH when calling filters and this makes foomatic-rip calling

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2010-02-02 Thread Till Kamppeter
** Changed in: foomatic-filters (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed -- Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463059 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2010-02-02 Thread Till Kamppeter
Also some proprietary (manufacturer-supplied) drivers using foomatic-rip can have this problem and the fix in foomatic-filters will solve it. ** Also affects: foomatic-filters (Ubuntu Karmic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: foomatic-filters (Ubuntu Karmic) Importance

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2010-02-02 Thread Till Kamppeter
By testing with a similar driver ("foo2zjs" on the HP LaserJet 1020) I could see how the problem got caused. The driver requires incoming PDF being converted to PostScript and instead of using the desired call of Poppler's pdftops it used an awkward Ghostscript call which is only supported as a fal

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2010-02-02 Thread Tybion
Further testing ... I attached Lab01.pdf above. Steps followed .. da...@thich:~$ cupsctl LogLevel=debug da...@thich:~$ cupsctl LogDebugHistory=99 da...@thich:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart * Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd [ OK ] da...@thich:~$ ev

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2010-02-01 Thread Till Kamppeter
Everyone who has this problem please, I need the following information: 1. The file you tried to print. If you did not supply it yet, please attach it to the bug report. If the problem occurs for you directly after boot, please you have a file from the last session still in the print queue. You ca

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2010-01-29 Thread Tybion
Till, thanks for that. I have downloaded the Lucid Alpha nightly desktop ISO build from Jan 28th and installed it. (This has taken a while because this is unstable on my PC - the graphical session keeps hanging) I printed out the attached PDF to a Samsung CLP-300 (using monochrome, double-sided

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2010-01-26 Thread Till Kamppeter
Everyone who is using the "pxlmono" or "pxlcolor" driver of Ghostscript (PCL-XL/PCL-6 drivers), please try a live CD of Lucid as to these drivers several fixes were applied recently. Please tell whether the fixed Ghostscript in Lucid solves the problem. -- Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2010-01-22 Thread Kris Marsh
Same issue with me, sending a pdf or ps to a printer on a headless server. * Problem also occurs if scp'ing files and printing locally (i.e. lpr filename.pdf) - when leaving it (10 mins for a 3-page pdf on a 700MHz processor, it eventually came out). * Print queue is empty Till Kamppeter: Is it

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2010-01-11 Thread Tybion
Super_merlin - Check your print queues - there is a good chance you have an old .PDF job in a print queue from a previous session. -- Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463059 You received this bug notification

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2010-01-11 Thread Super_merlin
I'm not even printing anything. I just turned the computer on, and had a processor at 100%. Ubuntu 9.10, fresh install, 32-bit. -- Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463059 You received this bug notification beca

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2010-01-10 Thread disiei
same problem, my system: Ubuntu 9.10 (KK) 64 bits, fresh installation. Printer HP Deskjet D2460 Eons to print a PDF Thanks in advance David -- Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463059 You received this bug no

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2009-12-11 Thread Till Kamppeter
In the last days the pxlmono driver in Ghostscript (the one which you are using) got vastly improved. I have applied the appropriate patches to the Ghostscript of Lucid. Please try a live CD of Lucid Alpha 1. Does printing go faster with it? ** Changed in: ghostscript (Ubuntu) Status: New =

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2009-12-11 Thread Raimund Sacherer
forgot to mention, ubuntu 9.10, fresh install -- Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463059 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bu

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2009-12-11 Thread Raimund Sacherer
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 X

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2009-12-09 Thread bat
ubuntu 9.10 - 64 bit - Same problem when trying to print PDF on a network Canon printer, -- Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463059 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, w

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2009-11-30 Thread Akash
I have Ubuntu 9.10 freshly installed, yet i have the problem of gs and pdftotext taking up huge amount of CPU while downloading a bunch of pdf files using Transmission torrent client. -- Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart https://bugs.launchpad

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2009-11-16 Thread taskin
i have installed fresh 9.10 but the problem seem to me. CPU 2.10 ghz. 2048 mb ram. -- Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463059 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2009-11-14 Thread Thorsten Hake
The problem seems to be connected to the upgrade of Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu 9.10. The process gs behaves on my computers completely normal if Ubuntu 9.10 is fresh installed. So the problem does not anymore occur on my computers. -- Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2009-11-14 Thread Tybion
I have found out that the gs process was flat-lining the CPU because there were a number of PDF jobs in the print queue. These PDFs are converted Powerpoint slides and seem to be printed very inefficiently. One PDF has 6 pages - each page displays 6 ppt slides - ie. the PDF has been created from

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2009-11-14 Thread Tybion
Same problem my PC - single core Pentium 4 flat-lining until I kill the gs process. lp2376 19.0 42.6 479544 438124 ? R10:46 0:06 gs -q -sstdout=%stderr -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=- -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dPARANOIDSAFER /var/spool/cups/tmp/foomatic-HHY4yi Printer is CLP-300 conn

[Bug 463059] Re: Process 'gs' begins taking 100% CPU and loading up vast amounts of RAM on CUPS restart

2009-11-02 Thread Thorsten Hake
This kind of problem also occurred on two of my PCs. Both are connected to a Brother 2140 using a Raw-Socket. The problem is the following: When I start to print a pdf (400kB) using evince the CPU usage of gs goes to 100% on one core and when the usage is reduced my memory will be blown up (physic