Hello,
although this should not occur on W2k client machines, please take a
look at the "Windows XP SP2 slow printing solution" thread.
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2004-November/096146.html
and http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2004-November/096492.html
The symptoms are the same as you described.
2nd make shure, that you are not using some older (!) Kyo KX drivers.
~ Martin
Roel van Meer wrote:
Hi list,
I am trying to track down a printer-related problem.
The most important symptom is a smbd process using almost all memory on
my machine (up to 800 MB, at the specific case of which I've posted the
logs.) At some point the VM will kill the smbd process, freeing the
memory. Apart from this, samba keeps on running fine.
Investigation of a level 3 debug log of this process has shown that the
client (a Windows XP machine) is accessing one of the samba printers
almost continuously, with four rpc calls: SPOOLSS_OPENPRINTEREX,
SPOOLSS_GETPRINTERDATA, SPOOLSS_CLOSEPRINTER and SPOOLSS_ENUMJOBS.
The printer driver is installed on the samba server. The client is
configured to use the printer via a Samba port. When the printer is
removed from the client, the rapid calls stop. When the printer is
installed again, the calls again occur in rapid succession.
Attached you'll find an excerpt of the output of 'ps', my smb.conf and a
piece of the log file.
I've seen this problem at a few different machines, with samba versions
3.0.20, 3.0.22 and 3.0.23 and different clients (all Windows 2000 or
XP). All machines are running Slackware 10.1. The only solution I have
found so far is removing the printers from the client.
I have been wondering if this problem can be caused by an absent or invalid
deviced mode for this printer.
Does anyone have a clue about what might cause this? Or a hint about
where to look further? I'm more than willing to provide more detailed
information.
Thanks in advance,
roel
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Martin Zielinski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Software Development
SEH Computertechnik GmbH www.seh.de
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