OK, I did the downgrade again, without the -dev packages. There was no error message this time about "libscupsfilters". But there still is a sticky message on my screen's menu bar that goes like "An error occurred, please run Package Manager or apt-get in a terminal..." Then:"Error: BrokenCount>0".
Yes, I have a Samsung Unified Driver installed – since several years. That is, it has been in use well before the current resources problem surfaced. Meanwhile, the downgraded <cupsd> seems to be running pretty quietly. It's not even in the Top60 of the <top> listing. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cups in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1835957 Title: cupsd gobbles up resources Status in cups package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: My computer has got very slow since 4 or 5 weeks. Finally, I checked resource usage with <top> and the culprit seems to be cupsd. Here is an output line from a few minutes after boot: 30900 root 20 0 305452 287396 5768 S 5,3 9,3 0:41.34 cupsd Then after an hour and a half (with nothing printed): 30900 root 20 0 2565692 2,125g 2240 R 79,0 71,9 93:01.45 cupsd So %CPU grows 5,3 -> 79,0 and %MEM, 9,3 -> 71,9. Not good. A user on a local forum asked whether printing anything helped, and, certainly, it did. After I did (print something), cupsd was happy with less than 1% of CPU and MEM. So if I print something after every boot, the problem does go away. But that is not really a solution, is it? Running Lubuntu 16.04.6 LTS (32-bit). cups version is 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.9. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1835957/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
