[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#488615: cupsys: Memory Leak in cupsd

[Lars Boegild Thomsen]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.7-4etch3
Severity: normal

The cupsd process is leaking memory.  It is not a major problem on a
server with plenty of memory, but on a fairly busy print server with
aproximately 60 users it loses about 2 MB daily.  The server is
monitored with jffnms so it's quite obvious that the process is eating
memory that is not released until a process restart.

I can add that most if not all print jobs are raw - ie. they come from
Windows clients through Samba and are already formatted for the intented
printer.  All printers attached using network sockets so in this case
Cups is merely acting as a spooler.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser             3.102                Add and remove users and groups
ii  cupsys-common       1.2.7-4etch3         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2. 1.5.11etch1          Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp              8.15.3.dfsg.1-1etch1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  libc6               2.3.6.ds1-13etch5    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsimage2       1.2.7-4etch3         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2          1.2.7-4etch3         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.0.2-1+etch1        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls13         1.4.4-3+etch1        the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libldap2            2.1.30-13.3          OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g            0.79-5               Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1           1.1.21               Library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1             1.2.1-6.2            OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base            3.1-23.2etch1        Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  patch               2.5.9-4              Apply a diff file to an original
ii  perl-modules        5.8.8-7etch3         Core Perl modules
ii  poppler-utils [xpdf 0.4.5-5.1etch2       PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii  procps              1:3.2.7-3            /proc file system utilities
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.3-13           compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii  cupsys-client         1.2.7-4etch3       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters      3.0.2-20061031-1.2 linuxprinting.org printer support 
ii  smbclient             3.0.24-6etch10     a LanManager-like simple client fo

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
  cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb