Hi All,

I am running Solaris 10 and when I first start up the machine my processor spikes to 100% until I issue the command:

/usr/sbin/lpshut

How can I solve this issue without shutting down the printer services? Thanks.

What command is using all the CPU before you stop the service ? And what is it doing ?

That's the strange part. When I run prstat the only process using any noticable cpu cycles is "lpsched", but it's reporting only 3-4%. As I stated earlier the cpu is pegged at 100%.

Thanks.

How are you measuring the CPU load ?

You can run truss to see what lpsched is doing, pstack to see where it is, pfiles to see its open file descriptors.

Next step would be using dtrace for a deeper investigation.

TRUSS gave me a "cannot find program: lpsched"

PSTACK:
384: /usr/lib/lp/local/lpsched
d0680cd5 pollsys (81955e0, 2, 0, 0)
d062a6d2 poll (81955e0, 2, ffffffff) + 52
080677a0 mlisten (1000, 8047e38, 8061d1b, 8047e54, 806197d, 8047e38) + 10b
08061ef1 take_message (8047e54, 806197d, 8047e38, d07fb840, 1000, 1000) + 9
08061d1b ???????? (8047e38, d07fb840, 1000, 1000, 807599e, 8047e70)
0806197d main (1, 8047e7c, 8047e84) + 23e
0805605a ???????? (1, 8047f08, 0, 8047f22, 8047f29, 8047f41)

PFILES:
384: /usr/lib/lp/local/lpsched
Current rlimit: 4096 file descriptors
0: S_IFIFO mode:0000 dev:278,0 ino:190 uid:0 gid:0 size:0
O_RDWR
1: S_IFIFO mode:0000 dev:278,0 ino:190 uid:0 gid:0 size:0
O_RDWR
2: S_IFIFO mode:0000 dev:278,0 ino:2082 uid:0 gid:0 size:35
O_RDWR
3: S_IFCHR mode:0666 dev:270,0 ino:11010052 uid:0 gid:3 rdev:21,0
O_WRONLY FD_CLOEXEC
/devices/pseudo/log@0:conslog
4: S_IFDOOR mode:0444 dev:279,0 ino:57 uid:0 gid:0 size:0
O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE FD_CLOEXEC door to nscd[136]
/var/run/name_service_door
5: S_IFREG mode:0664 dev:102,0 ino:187994 uid:71 gid:8 size:0
O_WRONLY
/var/spool/lp/SCHEDLOCK
7: S_IFIFO mode:0000 dev:278,0 ino:2082 uid:0 gid:0 size:0
O_RDWR

try:By the way, if you don't print from your machine, a simple workaround would be to disable the print service ...

I don't really print from this machine. How can I disable the print service?

something like:

svcadm disable ????

Start with:

Problem solved. Thanks!

If I do resume printing from this machine I'll let you know