On Feb 26, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Dan wrote:
I downloaded the "latest" software from HP, for this scanner.
PrecisionScan 3.3. Seems to work well, very fast, etc. BUT the
daemon that watches the buttons on scanner's front panel has a BAD
memory leak. It sits there chewing up memory until the VM size
grows to about 1.5 GB, then it takes the Mac to its knees, then the
whole system freezes.
Googled around, saw this is a known problem - soln is to kill that
daemon. But that leaves the scanner's front panel unusable.
I also have other HP scanners, different models but mostly of the
same time frame, that I need to get working.
Is there a version of PrecisionScan, newer than 3.3, that supports
these older scanners, but doesn't come with the handy dandy
hemorrhage? Been googling around, and perusing hp's site, but so
far found nada.
I've looked and looked without result too.
In my case they just went and bought a newer scanner for the Macs and
relegated the HP to a PeeCee, but my next choice was to write a little
daemon myself that 'kill -HUP' ed the HP daemon on a regular basis.
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