To delete print jobs in cups in a Linux system you should use this command:

# lprm

Or, to cancel all jobs:

# lprm -

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If you have high CPU usage on your mac, and the cu…

Anonymous - May 5, 2009

If you have high CPU usage on your mac, and the culprit is the “socket” process, “lprm -” fixes it!

From comments I read on the web and my own experience, it would appear that some print drivers installed on your windows VM can get a page stuck in the queue. How cupsd or the socket process gets involved is unknown to me.

According to my experiences helps rather:
# cancel -a

E.

Which 2 of the following commands list all standing print jobs and their status

lpstat -t