Comment 56 for bug 112803

We need a test with a CUPS version which does not have the numerous patches as the Ubuntu version has.

Can you try the following:

Download

http://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/RPMS/i486/cups-1.2.11-1lsb3.1.i486.rpm

or

http://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/RPMS/x86_64/cups-1.2.11-1lsb3.1.x86_64.rpm

depending on whether you are using the 32-bit or 64-bit PC platform.

Convert the package to the Debian format:

sudo apt-get install alien
sudo alien --scripts cups-*.rpm

Install this package:

sudo dpkg -i cups_*.deb

Transfer your print queues to the new CUPS:

sudo cp /etc/cups/printers.conf /etc/opt/cups/
sudo cp /etc/cups/ppd/*.ppd /etc/opt/cups/ppd/

Stop the system's CUPS

/etc/init.d/cupsys stop

and start the new CUPS

/etc/init.d/cups start

(NOTE: only "cups" not "cupsys" here).

Try to print and observe whether the memory leak appears again.