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[Duane Attaway]

> I noticed in top that a user lp is running programs imagetoraster and
> rastertoprint.  These appear to be related to CUPS, but what do they do?
> I'm wondering if I can get rid of these, and if so, how?  Any ideas?

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You might like the command pstree.  It will give you a structured view of 
what runs what, starting with init as the root of all processes.  Let me 
know if you don't have this command.

You can kill its parent with the killall command.  killall -9 <process> is
the magic bullet.  Sometimes a process has chosen to ignore kill signals.  
That's when you kill its parent or up the tree to its grandparents.

Its just a wild guess, but I'd imagine these raster processes have 
something to do with the desktop process making snapshots of the screen 
for printing.  Sounds poorly implimented as something you don't currently 
need shouldn't be using megawatts of cpu cycles.