I had problems with cdrecord previously after reinstalling our printserver/cdwserver. Having compiled a new kernel, everything seemed ok until recently, when we've been losing CDs again due to "loss of streaming". Attaching a monitor to this machine, I see the following erorrs on the machine VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for cdrecord Thus it seems that we are running out of memory. Running top shows that cupsd is consuming 17MB (56%) of our 32MB of memory, the next highest is top with 800k. Previously we had no problems with this machine (when it was running lpr). I guess my options are: 1)get more ram 2)use lpr I have become attached to cups, since we get install-and-print printing for linux boxes (better than NTs point-and-print!), but if I keep losing CDs, it's going to have to go ... Why is cups using so much memory, and is there anyway to reduce this ? I haven't kept up with the updates from the unsupported directory, since I have a working printserver for 40 clients on 2 printers, and don't want to fix something that isn't broken ... -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 808 2497 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za
