Hi all,
Just now I went to print a pdf document in evince. The print job quit halfway through, and a program called "foomatic-rip" started grabbing all my memory; the last top reading was 667 MB resident memory and 1069 MB virtual. Alas, I didn't get to the command line in time enough to kill it and completely choked my system; I could neither ssh in from another machine to kill it nor kill X with ctrl-alt-backspace; my only recourse was a hard-reboot (accompanied by a lot of cursing).
I've seen footmatic-rip sporadically misbehave this way before, both under FC6, which I am currently running, and FC5; previous occasions it has been printing from Firefox. I don't see it happen when printing from Abiword or glabels on the other hand.
Anyone have any idea what is going on? I am printing to a Lexmark Z-51 USB printer.
$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip foomatic-3.0.2-39.1.fc6