gnome-cups-icon 100% processor usage

[Jim Kronebusch]

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:20:21 -0400, David Trask wrote
> "Jim Kronebusch" <jim at winonacotter.org> writes:
> >Has anyone had top or htop open while students are printing?  Everytime a
> >print job is
> >sent gnome-cups-icon spikes processor usage on at least one processor
> >100%.  I haven't
> >seen any slowdowns at this point but it may be a problem in the future. 
> >I also notice
> >that if 3 different printers (or however many are in use) are processing
> >jobs at the
> >same time I get multiple icons by the clock, one for each printer.
> >
> >Honestly I don't care to see the icons at all.  Anyone know of a simple
> >way to remove
> >the gnome-cups-icon so it doesn't consume so much processor and so users
> >to have to look
> >at all of those icons?

I was monitoring with xrestop (on the server sudo apt-get install xrestop).  On a
running client when logged in open a terminal and run xrestop.  Then fire up firefox and
watch the memory used by firefox climb, fast, then hang.  When it freezes you can see
the last amount used before hanging.  

This appears to be due to firefox caching pixmaps to X.  We need a hack for that and the
problem should go away.  I'm using Opera in the interim.

Jim

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