why is /var/spool/cups so huge?

[Robert Nichols]

On 02/13/2011 09:24 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been running F14 since the day it came out (on LXDE) and I have
> noticed that my / is now as much as 7.3G in size. (My /home is separate
> so these are really system-related files in /). Upon investigation, I
> have come to realize that my /var/spool/cups is almost 4GB.
>
> sudo du -sm /var/spool/cups/
> 3953	/var/spool/cups/
>
> I was wondering why this is so high, and whether there is some setting
> that I should change for this. This has never previously been a problem
> for me even when using LXDE. Does anyone have some suggestions.

Sounds like you're keeping the control files for every job ever printed.
Edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and add or change a line to set MaxJobs to some
reasonable number.  I use "MaxJobs 100" -- unlikely I'll ever want to see
more job history than that.

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