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cups-filters package

  1. Bug #1920190
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 1920190

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Manu (manulari) wrote :

manu@lari:~$ lpstat -a
Brother_MFC_L2710DW_series accepting requests since Mon 19 Apr 2021 10:46:49
followme accepting requests since Wed 11 Dec 2019 17:27:19
manu@lari:~$ lpstat -v
device for Brother_MFC_L2710DW_series: implicitclass://Brother_MFC_L2710DW_series/
device for followme: ipps://printer.mat.univie.ac.at/printers/followme
manu@lari:~$

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The followme printer is not actually on my current network, it's on my (ex-)work network.
Also, it seems to me, your theory wouldn't explain why running pdftoraster directly also uses excessive memory.
When printing, I observe a single process consuming many gigabytes of RAM in htop.