100% gs CPU usage, slow printing of PDF files
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ghostscript (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Recently, larger-ish PDF files are printing very slowly.
This PDF, for example: http://
Printing to any printer, the process gs will occupy 100% cpu for several minutes before the print job is actually sent. During this time an error will appear in a notification bubble that states "[printername] may not be connected"
The job will eventually print. On older systems this same document takes half an hour to print.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ghostscript 9.10~dfsg-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-62-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.12
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Wed Aug 26 14:03:13 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-04 (83 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140416.2)
MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Papersize: letter
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: ghostscript
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 03/03/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: P1.10
dmi.board.name: H61M-VS
dmi.board.vendor: ASRock
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
I just noticed two GS processes taking 100% of CPU load, no printer installed, only one PDF file open and one Octave plot output. The CPU temp was reaching 90oC, so with top I found two GS processes.