A large print job disables the CUPS print queue in RHEL
Issue
- It is found that when user submitted a large print jobs from the Linux server, the print queue would be disabled and the print job could not be processed further more.
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When I submit a print job size around 70M in RHEL 5.3, the print job will consume a lot of space in
/var/spool/cups. I used the following command to create a print queue.# /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p <print queue name> -P "/usr/share/cups/model/laserjet.ppd" -v lpd://<print server hostname>/<print queue name> -E
However, if "-P /usr/share/cups/model/laserjet.ppd" is omitted i the command above, the problem of disk space consumption doesn't occur.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5
- Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.3.7
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