Firstly I must say this is an awesome product and virtually meets all my requirements except for 1 major problem.... 100% CPU Usage
Stock standard SME 7 install with all updates installed.
SME7Admin panel installed.
Using 'top' I saw that CPU usage was being hogged by the LP daemon (LPD). 2 services with +/- 50% used by each.
Using 'service lpd stop' and running 'top' again, CPU usage now extremely low.
Therefore I think there could be a problem with the LPD service. Maybe a tweak I can use ? .... or an alternative that is not resource hungry?
One of the major needs for this installation is for a printer server for a client. I have been trying to convert this client to the benefits of Linux as a server away from other products and would like to reccomend this solution.
Hardware : (Test/Demo rig)
RAM : 768Mb (3*256Mb)
CPU : 950 Mhz Celeron
NIC : 1 x Intel 1Gb/s, 1 x D-Link 100Mb/s
HDD : 15Gb Western Digital (UDMA 66)
I have included links to images captured from the SME7Admin module and you will be blown away, as I was by the drop in CPU usage !!!!!!
(The first slight drop was after stopping all the 'clam' services'



Can I uninstall LPD in favour of CUPS ?
Would CUPS resolve this high CPU load ?
I am a Linux newbie, so please be gentle with me.
Kinds regards
Andre N