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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
