Package: xsane Version: 0.99+0.991-2
I turned on the local scanner, put some sheet of paper into in, started xsane. Looked with "ps aux" on the process list and saw saned there. Then I started acquring a preview of a A4 sheet of paper. Looking of the list of processes with "top", I noticed two copies of "saned", both running at the same priority (NI 0). After the preview was acquired, I discovered that one "saned" copy terminated. Scanning was very slow. However, if during a scan the priority of the former copy of "saned" (that starts together with xsane and terminates at its end) is manually reniced to a worse value (i.e. +19), scanning gets a lot faster. This suggests that the former copy of "saned" is not really useful. The next time scanning is started (e.g. for the next sheet of paper), the priority of the new copy of "saned" is automatically niced to the priority of the copy already in memory (which is +19) for an unknown reason, which makes the scanning even slower than before. To get scanning faster again, the user has to set it manually to a better value (e.g. to 0). I expect that either only one copy of saned is in the memory or, if two are really needed (for what reason I cannot understand), then former one should start with a worse priority and the latter one with a better priority. I'm using the mustek_pp driver and the scanner called "MD 9890". The system is a debian etch with a few newer packages. Other configuration data: $ aptitude show sane-utils | grep Version Version: 1.0.18-5 $ aptitude show libsane | grep Version Version: 1.0.18-5 $ aptitude show libc6 | grep Version Version: 2.5-7 $ grep sane /etc/services sane-port 6566/tcp sane saned # SANE network scanner daemon $ grep sane /etc/inetd.conf sane-port stream tcp nowait saned.saned /usr/sbin/saned saned $ grep sane /etc/xin* grep: /etc/xin*: No such file or directory $ uname -a Linux mpino2412 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Sun Aug 12 21:57:02 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/sane.d/mustek_pp.conf ... scanner "mustek" * cis1200 Hoping to see a soon fix Best regards Sasha _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
