Processes owned by user "lp" are consuming lots of CPU time in RHEL
Issue
The user lp owns processes that are consuming a lot of CPU. For example:
# top
top - 14:19:57 up 18 days, 10:27, 2 users, load average: 6.96, 6.90, 6.90
Tasks: 506 total, 7 running, 494 sleeping, 0 stopped, 5 zombie
Cpu(s): 19.7%us, 80.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
31870 lp 20 0 19868 10m 2476 R 97.1 0.1 7269:54 c3pldrv
19821 lp 20 0 22880 13m 2400 R 88.5 0.1 7486:19 c3pldrv
11619 lp 20 0 22880 12m 2412 R 51.1 0.1 7235:47 c3pldrv
30744 lp 20 0 22816 13m 2524 R 50.4 0.1 15939:36 c3pldrv
12335 lp 20 0 19708 10m 2480 R 50.1 0.1 7256:25 c3pldrv
31718 lp 20 0 4396 888 508 R 49.1 0.0 15948:45 cnpkmoduleufr2
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
- Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.4.2
- Canon Printers
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