LPD daemon starting too many lpd processes

[Amjad Jawed]

How i can stop LPD processes to fork another proces as it is eating up all of the swap space.

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

I had this problem once myself. I switched swapping from eager to lazy and got rid of it. Tell us, what os you have and what hardware.

greetings,

Michael

[Amjad Jawed]

it is running TRU64 Unix 5.1a. GS160 system

The problem is as soon as you boot the system lpd process are getting started more and more and eating up the swap space. and when u just stop the LPD daemon the swap space becomes almost free.

if i strt LPD daemon again and do a ps -ef it is showing LPD processes increaing each time i issue ps -ef ang swap sapce is getting full.

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Are you printing so much?
Any errors in lpr.log?
What patch kit do you have?

hth,

Michael

[Ralf Puchner]

have you made manual changes within printcap? maybe there is a syntax error within the printcap.

Please throw away all printcap entries and configure a test queue. After that use /sbin/init.d/lpd stop and start and check if processes will be forked.

If not recreate your printcap with lprconfig.

Also check lpr.log for possible errors.

[Amjad Jawed]

problem is resolved after clearing the spool entries/clearing print entries.