*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 30965 ***
** Changed in: cupsys (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 30965
cupsd pushes the pedal to 99% when restarting
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multiple cups-polld running simultaneously
https://launchpad.net/bugs/67680
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See bug #30965 for more infor about the 100% usage, and some notes about
the lingering cups-polld processes.
I get 100% CPU usage without patching anything, I only have to enable
BrowsePoll.
Maybe the reason for the 100% CPU usage is that it can't connect
properly to the spawned cups-polld, becau
After running with my patch for a while, I saw the same behavior - cupsd
running at 100% CPU. In our environment, we're running only clients, so
the inability to bind port 631 wasn't immediately a problem. So, it
looks like my "quick fix" is a bust.
My next thought is that this might actually be a
I can't get it working :'(
If I use your patch, I can only print from the server. The printers are
not polled to the clients.
Moreover, cups takes 100% of CPU when running like this.
with your patch, [cups-polld] is effectively running as cupsys
ps axu | grep cup
mathieu 21783 0.0 0.0 3912
Hi,
Thanks for your patch, I've tested it, but I get this messages in my
logs (/var/log/cups/error_log)
E [06/Dec/2006:15:06:31 +0100] Unable to bind socket for address :::631 -
Permission denied.
E [06/Dec/2006:15:06:31 +0100] Unable to bind socket for address 0.0.0.0:631 -
Permission denied.
We were having the same problems here and it turned out that when cupsd
was spawning off the cups-polld process, it was still running as root,
so although cupsd was running as cupsys, cups-polld was running as root.
When the init script killed cupsd (either though stop or restart), the
cups-polld p
