** Description changed:

  Under heavy workload conditions cups can reach irrationally high memory
  consumption very quickly (tens of GBs).
  
  Test case:
  1. Set MaxJobs to 40000 in cupsd.conf.
  2. sudo apt install cups-pdf
  3. Fill the queue with jobs:
  while [ 1 ]; lp -d PDF /usr/share/cups/data/default.pdf; done
  4. Cancel all jobs
  cancel -a PDF
  5. Restart cups.
  6. Start filling the queue again (as in step 3).
  
  Expected result:
  Jobs are processed and memory consumption is proportional to the number of 
jobs.
  
  Actual result:
- After step 5 or at latest step 6 memory consumption starts to increase 
exponentially - from ~150-200 MB to 8+GB. Without foreseeing this it's very 
easy to get cups killed by OOM killer.
+ After step 5 or at latest step 6 memory consumption starts to increase 
exponentially - from ~150-200 MB to 8+GB. Without foreseeing this it's very 
easy to get cupsd killed by OOM killer.

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  Extremely high memory consumption under heavy workload

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