What is cupsd doing at this stages?

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Wed Apr 13 16:20:04 PDT 2005


angelb at bugarin.us wrote:
> ...
> [zab3670 at stlpr500 cups1123]$ grep -v "#" cupsd.conf|grep -i browse
> BrowseProtocols all
> BrowseAddress @LOCAL
> BrowseInterval 30
> BrowseTimeout 900
> ...
> sapti01f:./zab3670> lpstat -a|wc
>     2326   16217   99569

2326 printers, broadcast over a period of 30 seconds, which means
the client is processing ~80 printers per second.

Change the BrowseInterval to 300 seconds (~8 printers per second)
to reduce the CPU load, to 3600 (and set the BrowseTimeout to 14400)
to virtually eliminate it.

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