cups does not scale very well

Michael R Sweet mike at easysw.com
Thu Jun 9 06:06:52 PDT 2005


Anonymous wrote:
> ...
> The creation of all those printers on the test cups box (Ultra
> Enterprise V240) took about 8 hours. At the beginning about 200
> printers where created within 2 minutes, we are not using PPD's just
> plain System V interface scripts. At the End the performance of
> creating printers slowed down to 2 to 3 printers a minute :-(.
> ...
> Any hints to get cups any faster?

What version of CUPS are you using?  We regularly test CUPS with
10,000+ printers, and do not see this kind of performance problem,
particularly for raw queues.

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