[hylafax-users] Re: faxq uses 98.9% cpu

[Adam Bisbe <adam@bisbe.net>]

On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Livio Bertacco wrote:

> Hello,
>   I really need some help with hylafax configuration because I can't manage
> to get it working and I'm going to give up.
> The biggest problem is that I can't send fax from windows (hylafax client)
> I have RedHat 6.2, installed the hylafax4.1beta1.rpm from hylafax.org,
> changed the faxsetup to use awk in place of mawk.
> I have configured my USR courier on ttyS1 and opened user access to the
> whole net.
> Hylafax is launched by sysvinit and then I type manually for now the
> "faxmodem ttyS1" command (I use the modem only for dialout).
> If I do a "sendfax" of a ps file locally, hylafax works fine (the fax get
> sent)
> But:
> - if the number is busy, during the busy-retry delay the modem status is
> "Waiting for modem to come ready". Is this correct? Actually the modem is
> ready, it's hylafax that is pausing.

Change the line you have on config.ttyXXX to and you will see the modem
ready.

ModemSetupDTRCmd:       AT&D2   # setup so DTR drop resets modem


> - if I try to send text, sendfax aborts because it says it can't find
> fontmetrics. WHY? I have fontmetrics (ghostscript onesand the ones shipped
> with hylafax) correctly configured in FontPath and also FontMap. Ghostscript
> finds fontmetrics. So whats wrong?
> 
> Anyway...the big problem is with jobs submitted by WHFC.
> The job arrives at linux. I find the original ps file in the docq dir. I
> also find the converted tiff file in docq and the job in sendq.
> faxstat -s is
> HylaFAX scheduler on moloch.bertacco: Running
> Modem ttyS1 (+39.424.811xxx): Waiting for modem to come ready
> JID  Pri S  Owner Number       Pages Dials     TTS Status
> 9    127 R  livio 0424811xxx    0:0   0:12
> 10   127 W   root 0424811xxx    0:0   0:12
> 
> BUT hylafax doesn't dial and probably faxq enters an endless-loop. See top
> output:
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
>  1610 uucp      13   0  2156 2156  2040 R       0 98.9  1.6  13:20 faxq
>  1790 root       1   0   836  836   652 R       0  0.9  0.6   0:00 top
> 
> beside these, the only other fax related process are hfaxd and another faxq
> that was not present before whfc sent the job.
> Note that i don't have faxq or hfaxd in initd.conf.
> 
> What can it be?
> Can it be the libtiff (I have the 3.5 one that comes with RH6.2) even if the
> doc get converted correctly?
> 
> Thank you for any advice.
> 
> WHFC job info as from the sendq dir
> tts:961248982
> killtime:961259782
> retrytime:0
> state:6
> npages:0
> totpages:0
> ntries:0
> ndials:0
> totdials:0
> maxdials:12
> tottries:0
> maxtries:3
> pagewidth:194
> resolution:98
> pagelength:281
> priority:127
> schedpri:127
> minsp:0
> desiredbr:5
> desiredst:0
> desiredec:1
> desireddf:3
> desiredtl:0
> useccover:1
> external:0424811xxx
> number:0424811xxx
> mailaddr:livio
> jobid:9
> jobtag:
> pagehandling:
> modem:any
> receiver:
> company:
> location:
> cover:
> client:192.168.0.2
> owner:livio
> groupid:9
> signalrate:
> dataformat:
> jobtype:facsimile
> tagline:
> subaddr:
> passwd:
> doneop:default
> commid:
> status:
> notify:when done+requeued
> pagechop:default
> chopthreshold:3
> postscript:0::docq/doc9.ps.9
> 
> 
> 
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Adam



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