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Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 16:43:36 -0500
From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
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Subject: Re: lpd dies
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Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> 
> At 10:46 AM -0500 5/21/01, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> >I have a computer that acts as a hub and runs a network
> >printer.  After a long period of no printing activity, lpd
> >simply dies.
> 
> What do you mean by "long period"?  Days?  Weeks?

A day or two.

> 
> Is this on a print server, which is accepting print jobs
> from other boxes to print on some locally-attached printer?
> Or is it a "print client", which has no locally-attached
> printers but sends all print jobs to some remote host?

It is the former - a printer server.

> 
> We (RPI) *did* have this problem in AIX boxes, when AIX
> was running out of memory and would start killing off
> random processes.

I have 32M of RAM and 200M of swap.

> 
> Do you see any messages in /var/log/messages?

Only messages indicating that lpd has been restarted.

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