Bug#280718: gnome-cups-manager: floods central cups printer server with requests

[Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias]

Hi, thanks for answering!

El mar, 14-12-2004 a las 18:02, Ross Burton escribió:
> Current gnome-cups-manager needs to poll the CUPS server as there is no
> other way of obtaining the job information.
> 
> One semi-solution for the central server use-case is to install a local
> cupsd on each machine, which simply forwards the jobs.  This way the
> local machines take the hit of the polling.

Umm, in our university server people logs in bye XMDCP, so we have only
dump X-terminal, so this is not posible. 

The problem it's that gnome-cups-icon does polling at very high rate, ~
3 times per second as I see in the logs. Maybe making the poll time
value configurable would be a solution (in this case I'll set it a 20
seconds, so cupsd doesn't eat so much cpu)

I know this will make gnome-cups-icon far less responsive, but it's the
only workaround until having a dbus-enabled cups.


> Upstream's plan is to remove the polling for GNOME 2.10, but this will
> require a DBUS-enabled CUPS (which Debian doesn't have at the moment).
> 
> Ross

Regards, Emilio