From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040809 Epiphany/1.3.8 Description of problem: I have a cups server serving a few dozen linux desktops. I have started upgrading them from Fedora Core 2 to RHEL4 beta, and noticed a very high volume of network traffic on the upgraded machines. I traced the issue to eggcups, which appears to be probing the print server for information every five seconds. Since we have about 200 printers, this is causing hundreds of packets to be exchanged between each desktop and the cups server at each five second interval. This is a rather serious issue. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): desktop-printing-0.10.2-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RHEL4 Beta 2. Log into GNOME 3. Watch the network traffic flow Actual Results: tcpdump/ethereal show hundreds of IPP packets being exchanged with the cups server Expected Results: not sure. Additional info:
This should already be fixed in beta2, at least. Can you try upgrading?
zillabug: Any luck with the upgraded version?
*** Bug 142320 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Closing out, as I'm no longer seeing the problem and there's been no feedback from the original reporter.