[CentOS] Problem with gs

Kwan Lowe

kwan.lowe at gmail.com
Sun May 16 01:40:01 UTC 2010


Just updated a laptop.. everything went smoothly but noticed one issue.

After updating and rebooting, I did a print test using enscript to
print a test file. In a few seconds, the CPU utilization shot way up.
The ghostprint gs program was using 99% CPU. The laptop fans started
spinning at the high rate. Laptop got very hot very suddenly then
shutdown. On reboot, the BIOS reported a temperature error and that
the system was shutdown to prevent damage. On rebooting, the gs
program kicked off again and again CPU shot up very high. Fans started
kicking off.  I killed the gs process and about 20 seconds later then
fans went back to normal.



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