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[Expired for cups (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
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** Changed in: cups (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  Lucid: possibly memory leak in CUPS?

Status in cups package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: cups

  I tried 2 times to print a PDF (~7 MB = 225 pages) to my HP LaserJet
  5M per evince and with the PCL-driver (not Postscript).

  - The first time (pages 1-225) at some point the PC slows down to a
  crawl with much disk activity until Gnome more or less died. Died
  means Gnome didn't response anymore and I could at some point only see
  the silhouette of the programs that where open... means: I could see
  where my programs have been but could not see their content. From that
  first try I will attach the relevant part from my syslog.

  As I needed the PDF to get printed out and wanted to try to reproduce
  the problem I started...

  - The second time (pages 141-225). This time with the
  "Systemüberwachung" (systemmonitor?) on my desktop so I could see what
  happens to my RAM. I will attach a screenshot which will show the
  slowly growing amount of RAM used while printing. This time syslog
  shows nothing of interesst. Gnome just froze and I had to reboot.

  Maybe interessting details:
  Ubuntu 10.04 64bit
  My PC has 2GB of RAM and 2,3 GB swap.
  The PDF in question is a 7MB monster with a copied dissertation --> means: someone copied the paperpages and put the resulting images in that PDF. I can't upload it as I had to pay for it and I think that the copyright owner would not like to see me uploading his work to launchpad :-)
  The first print job (pages 1-225) was about ~30 MB in size. The second one (pages 141-225) about ~10 MB. At least that was shown to me after clicking on the icon for the print jobs in queue.
  My LaserJet has 22MB RAM in total.
  I tried to print 2 pages from the PDF to one paper page to cut down the paper usage.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: cups 1.4.3-1ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: 3119c34470b36f5a933dc871a81de870
  CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
  Date: Wed Jun  2 15:05:30 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100317.1)
  Lpstat:
   device for HP-LaserJet-5M: socket://192.168.178.3:9100
   device for HP-LaserJet-5M-PS: socket://192.168.178.3:9100
  MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
  Papersize: a4
  PpdFiles:
   HP-LaserJet-5M: HP LaserJet 5M - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.5 Simplified
   HP-LaserJet-5M-PS: HP LaserJet 5M Foomatic/Postscript
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=/dev/mapper/crypt-root ro quiet splash
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=de_DE.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: cups
  dmi.bios.date: 08/06/2008
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: 0803
  dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.board.name: M3A-H/HDMI
  dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
  dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
  dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0803:bd08/06/2008:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnM3A-H/HDMI:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
  dmi.product.name: System Product Name
  dmi.product.version: System Version
  dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer

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