Package: gnome-cups-manager Version: 0.31-3 Severity: grave gnome-cups-manager polls cups about all printers every few seconds.
We run this on many clients, and have dozens of printers defined. Each client does not run a local cupsd, but instead has cupsys-client installed, with a line in /etc/cups/client.conf that directs them to the central server. The result is pretty much the same as a denial of service attack on the server. All these clients sending all these requests so frequently is running the server into the ground. There is no reason at all to poll the printers so often, and no way in the preferences to change the polling interval. Actually, the only reason it polls seems to be to put printer icons on the panel, which is completely annoying and useless for sites that have many printers -- and also appears to be something that cannot be disabled globally very easily -- and is on by default whenever gnome-cups-manager is installed. All in all, not a very pleasant setup. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (99, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages gnome-cups-manager depends on: ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.12.4-3 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-3 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.14.0-5 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.2.4-4 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libcupsys2 1.2.7-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libgconf2-4 2.16.1-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.0-4 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 0.6.0-3 GNOME keyring services library ii libgnome2-0 2.16.0-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.14.0-2 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomecups1.0-1 0.2.2-5 GNOME library for CUPS interaction ii libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a 0.31-3 UI extensions to libgnomecups ii libgnomeui-0 2.14.1-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.14.2-7 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime ii libgnutls13 1.4.4-3 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.20-7 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii liborbit2 1:2.14.3-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-0 1.14.8-5 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxcursor1 1.1.7-4 X cursor management library ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.1-5 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.6.27.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-5 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra Versions of packages gnome-cups-manager recommends: ii gksu 2.0.0-1 graphical frontend to su -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
