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Date:      Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:23:56 +0200 (CEST)
From:      "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
To:        Christoph Sold <so@i-clue.de>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: lpd trouble on FBSD 4.4-RC
Message-ID:  <20010913171806.Q68148-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
In-Reply-To: <3BA0C9FB.6090709@i-clue.de>

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On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Christoph Sold wrote:

All right, while this mail came in, I did already this monitoring and
found out something strange. The /var partition is about 2 GB in size.
'df' shows me that 900MB are used - but that is impossible!

I checked with 'du -k' thsi partition and du showed up a usage of only 14
MB - what seems more realistic to me. How to check the partition? where is
the memory gone?

At the moment this machine has the most recent 4.4-RC installed and at this time
I started again a make world. Last time 'MAKEDEV' after a mergemaster failed
due to a  bug in the script (after compilation, kernel install I restarted and
tried again MAKEDEV all in /dev but with the same failure to exclude kernel
<-> device dependencies with MAKEDEV).

Indeed, the first problem occured likely due to lack of memory. But I can not
realize why the local lpc and lpq commands can not connect to the local lpd.

:>Hartmann, O. wrote:
:>
:>>Hello.
:>>
:>>Well, every year again we have strange troubles with our relatively
:>>primitive set up printserver. Printserver is a FBSD 4.4-RC machine,
:>>buffering incoming printjobs from other hosts and sending it as a kind
:>>of gateway to e HP JetDirect 500X printserver.
:>>
:>>Sending a huge printjob (about 350 MB) seems to kill or disturb the
:>>lpd functions. All smaller jobs are to be printed the normal way.
:>>We use no limitations within /etc/printcap or by other quoting
:>>systems.
:>>A further phenomenon is that I cannot access the lpd via lpc on the
:>>printserver itself. lpq -a reports an error about a non accessible
:>>server, lpc reports that it also can not access the local lpd.
:>>>From remote hosts this seems to be all right, so I think there must
:>>be a misconfiguration or a kind of bug on the printserver itself.
:>>
:>>Does anyone has a tip, a hint?
:>>
:>Make sure the spool directory has enough room to hold the job.
:>Additionally, check if this job gets routed through any filters. If so,
:>make sure there is enough room for those jobs, too.
:>
:>A quick test is constantly monitoring your diskspace closely while
:>submitting a really big job.
:>
:>HTH
:>-Christoph Sold
:>
:>

--
MfG
O. Hartmann

ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de
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