Robert P. Goldman wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestions about debugging cups? I have a If the cups are made of glass, I look for cracks. If a glass cup is cracked you should recycle it! ;-) Call me a smart a$$. > Samsung printer and I find that cups bogs down depressingly often. What do you mean by "bogs down"? Please be more specific. > Everything just goes to sleep in the middle of a print job, often Ditto for "goes to sleep". > after printing just the first page. But then, when I restart cups > (this is Mandrake, so it's /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups restart), everything > comes back. Ditto for "comes back". CUPS has a web interface which may be more useful and provide more info. > > I was just hoping someone might be able to suggest where to begin. > I.e., should I look for some common factor in the ps that's going to > the printer? Is there some way to tell what state the system's in If cups "bogs down" on certain documents but not others then I might suspect postscript. I sorta doubt it's a postscript problem though. > when it bogs (there's no visible data interchange with the printer; > there are entries still in the queue)? I'm willing to work at it; I > just don't know where to start. The 'top' command might tell you who's busy. We also need to know more about your set up: what kind of printer is it? is it connected to a computer or right on the network? do you have machines with multiple OS's accessing the printer? do they all behave the same? -- Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff rick at eworld3.net _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list