Re: why is /var/spool/cups so huge?

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On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:10:53 -0600 Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Robert Nichols wrote:
> > On 02/13/2011 09:24 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have been running F14 since the day it came out (on LXDE) and I have
> >> noticed that my / is now as much as 7.3G in size. (My /home is separate
> >> so these are really system-related files in /). Upon investigation, I
> >> have come to realize that my /var/spool/cups is almost 4GB.
> >>
> >> sudo du -sm /var/spool/cups/
> >> 3953	/var/spool/cups/
> >>
> >> I was wondering why this is so high, and whether there is some setting
> >> that I should change for this. This has never previously been a problem
> >> for me even when using LXDE. Does anyone have some suggestions.
> >
> > Sounds like you're keeping the control files for every job ever printed.
> > Edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and add or change a line to set MaxJobs to some
> > reasonable number.  I use "MaxJobs 100" -- unlikely I'll ever want to see
> > more job history than that.
> >
> Thanks, that's one of the better ideas I seen on the subject. I confess I would 
> like to have an easy way to scale that to keep 2-3 days of history regardless of 
> count, but for anything but a print server a fixed count is the right answer.
> 

Thanks very much, all! There is no printer attached to this machine
anymore so I am not sure where this comes from. (there was a printer
attached briefly for which F went and found the drivers to install,
however.) In any case, when does this clear? Is there something I have
to do beyond putting the line in which I have done (a few hours ago)
now.

Best wishes,
Ranjan
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