Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 16:43:36 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lpd dies Message-ID: <3B098C08.E255FD35@math.missouri.edu> References: <3B093854.B847CF95@math.missouri.edu> <p05100e05b72f004a9163@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > At 10:46 AM -0500 5/21/01, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > >I have a computer that acts as a hub and runs a network > >printer. After a long period of no printing activity, lpd > >simply dies. > > What do you mean by "long period"? Days? Weeks? A day or two. > > Is this on a print server, which is accepting print jobs > from other boxes to print on some locally-attached printer? > Or is it a "print client", which has no locally-attached > printers but sends all print jobs to some remote host? It is the former - a printer server. > > We (RPI) *did* have this problem in AIX boxes, when AIX > was running out of memory and would start killing off > random processes. I have 32M of RAM and 200M of swap. > > Do you see any messages in /var/log/messages? Only messages indicating that lpd has been restarted. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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