Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (933 mails)

[Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@xxxxxxx>]

Hello,

On Jun 24 18:26 Marcus Meissner wrote (shortened):
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:15:54PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> > Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:05:45PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> > >
> > > > Lately, top shows foomatic-rip, user lp taking a lot of CPU time.  I
> > > > don't recall seeing this before.  I expect it's a CUPS driver.  How do I
> > > > get it to behave?  I'm running 64 bit OpenSUSE 11.0.
> > > Are you printing stuff at that time?
> > No, it's been a week since the last time I printed something.
>
> its probably hung ... :( kill it from the shell :/

If you are interested in the reason, it might help to have a look
at /var/log/cups/error_log if there are suspicious (error-)messages
therein regarding foomatic-rip or related to foomatic-rip.

For background information what foomatic-rip usually does, see
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell
"The Filter"


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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