[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#664538: cups: Printing is very slow (100% CPU usage by gs)
Witold Baryluk
baryluk at smp.if.uj.edu.pl
Sun Mar 18 18:24:43 UTC 2012
Package: cups
Version: 1.5.2-8
Severity: important
There is similar problem repoerted, but do not know how releated.
On my CUPS server (Pentium 3 700MHz, with 512MB of RAM),
any documents (like pdf, odf, web page in epiphany or firefox),
takes like 5 minutes to print first page. On CUPS server a 'gs'
process is taking 100% CPU and always about 200-213MB of RAM.
root at romeo:~# ps aux | grep gs
lp 12364 0.0 0.2 4560 1072 ? S 19:17 0:00 /bin/bash -c
gs -q -sstdout=%stderr -sDEVICE=ps2write -sOutputFile=- -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE
-dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOINTERPOLATE /var/spool/cups/tmp/foomatic-H1Rke7 2>/dev/null
|| PATH=${PATH#*/cups/filter:} pdftops -level2 -origpagesizes
/var/spool/cups/tmp/foomatic-H1Rke7 - 2>/dev/null
lp 12365 98.9 40.6 220260 208516 ? R 19:17 4:05 gs -q
-sstdout=%stderr -sDEVICE=ps2write -sOutputFile=- -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE
-dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOINTERPOLATE /var/spool/cups/tmp/foomatic-H1Rke7
#
First page takes 5 minutes, but each next page from same pdf
documents take like 15 seconds.
It is really annoying, to wait 1 hour to print 10 pages!
Bus 002 Device 051: ID 03f0:2b17 Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 1020
root at romeo:~# dpkg -l | grep cups
ii cups 1.5.0-13 Common
UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
ii cups-bsd 1.5.0-13 Common
UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD commands
ii cups-client 1.5.0-13 Common
UNIX Printing System(tm) - client programs (SysV)
ii cups-common 1.5.0-13 Common
UNIX Printing System(tm) - common files
ii cups-driver-gutenprint 5.2.7-5
transitional dummy package for gutenprint printer driver
ii cups-ppdc 1.5.0-13 Common
UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD manipulation utilities
ii ghostscript-cups 9.05~dfsg-2
interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - CUPS filters
ii hplip-cups 3.11.12-2
transitional dummy package for hpcups printer driver
ii libcups2 1.5.0-13 Common
UNIX Printing System(tm) - Core library
ii libcupscgi1 1.5.0-13 Common
UNIX Printing System(tm) - CGI library
ii libcupsdriver1 1.5.0-13 Common
UNIX Printing System(tm) - Driver library
ii libcupsimage2 1.5.0-13 Common
UNIX Printing System(tm) - Raster image library
ii libcupsmime1 1.5.0-13 Common
UNIX Printing System(tm) - MIME library
ii libcupsppdc1 1.5.0-13 Common
UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD manipulation library
ii printer-driver-hpcups 3.11.12-2 HP Linux
Printing and Imaging - CUPS Raster driver (hpcups)
root at romeo:~# dpkg -l | grep hpl
ii hplip 3.11.12-2 HP Linux
Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP)
ii hplip-cups 3.11.12-2
transitional dummy package for hpcups printer driver
ii hplip-data 3.11.12-2 HP Linux
Printing and Imaging - data files
ii hplip-doc 3.11.12-2 HP Linux
Printing and Imaging - documentation
root at romeo:~# dpkg -l | grep foo
ii foo2zjs 20111202dfsg0-1
transitional dummy package for foo2zjs printer driver
ii foomatic-db 20120212-1
OpenPrinting printer support - database
ii foomatic-db-engine 4.0.8-2
OpenPrinting printer support - programs
ii foomatic-db-gutenprint 5.2.7-5
OpenPrinting printer support - database for Gutenprint printer drivers
ii foomatic-filters 4.0.12-1
OpenPrinting printer support - filters
ii printer-driver-foo2zjs 20111202dfsg0-1 printer
driver for ZjStream-based printers
A server is on wheezy (testing), i386. There was no problems on squeezy -
printing was starting in maybe 10-20 seconds, depending on comlexity of
document.
Thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.3.0-rc7-t43-devel-smp-00048-g762ad8a-dirty (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to pl_PL.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu1
ii bc 1.06.95-2
ii cups-client 1.5.2-8
ii cups-common 1.5.2-8
ii cups-filters 1.0.5-1
ii cups-ppdc 1.5.2-8
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.42
ii dpkg 1.16.2~wipmultiarch
ii ghostscript 9.05~dfsg-3
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.31-1
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.31-1
ii libc6 2.13-27
ii libcups2 1.5.2-8
ii libcupscgi1 1.5.2-8
ii libcupsimage2 1.5.2-8
ii libcupsmime1 1.5.2-8
ii libcupsppdc1 1.5.2-8
ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.18-1
ii libgcc1 1:4.7.0~rc2-1
ii libgnutls26 2.12.18-1
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.10+dfsg~beta1-2
ii libkrb5-3 1.10+dfsg~beta1-2
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.28-1.1
ii libpam0g 1.1.3-7
ii libpaper1 1.1.24+nmu1
ii libslp1 1.2.1-9
ii libstdc++6 4.7.0~rc2-1
ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.9~rc3-3
ii lsb-base 3.2+Debian31
ii poppler-utils 0.16.7-3
ii procps 1:3.3.2-3
ii ssl-cert 1.0.28
Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii avahi-daemon 0.6.31-1
ii colord 0.1.16-2
ii foomatic-filters 4.0.13-1
ii ghostscript-cups 9.05~dfsg-3
ii printer-driver-gutenprint [cups-driver-gutenprint] 5.2.7-5
Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii cups-bsd 1.5.2-8
ii cups-pdf <none>
ii foomatic-db 20120212-1
ii hplip 3.12.2-1
ii smbclient 2:3.6.3-1
ii udev 175-3.1
-- debconf information excluded
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