foomatic-rip: catastrophic memleak

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Hi all,

Just now I went to print a pdf document in evince. The print job quit
halfway through, and a program called "foomatic-rip" started grabbing
all my memory; the last top reading was 667 MB resident memory and
1069 MB virtual. Alas, I didn't get to the command line in time enough
to kill it and completely choked my system; I could neither ssh in
from another machine to kill it nor  kill X with ctrl-alt-backspace;
my only recourse was a hard-reboot (accompanied by a lot of cursing).

I've seen footmatic-rip sporadically misbehave this way before, both
under FC6, which I am currently running, and FC5; previous occasions
it has been printing from Firefox. I don't see it happen when printing
from Abiword or glabels on the other hand.

Anyone have any idea what is going on? I am printing to a Lexmark Z-51
USB printer.

$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip
foomatic-3.0.2-39.1.fc6

--
 Colin Brace
 Amsterdam


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