How do you handle 320,000 printjobs?

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Thu Mar 31 14:28:27 PST 2005


Anonymous wrote:
> Perhaps we'll look at it this way using current data. The following table shows loads during certain hours. These data are print jobs from February:
> 
> Day  Hour    Count
> 09   15      1870
> 02   15      1783
> 15   09      1737
> 07   08      1570
> 04   15      1541
> 28   09      1450
> 08   10      1317
> 
> So the server needs to handle about 2000 print jobs an hour (33 per minute).
> The average is about 3 pages per print, so 6,000 pages an hour.
> The average printout is around 10,000 bytes per page (99% is PCL) and that is 60 MEG per hour.
> There are also 1,400 different printers, not just a few high volume printers.  So at any one time 100s of printers could be printing at the same time.
> 
> Any thoughts on this?

If they are raw PCL jobs with no filtering, then your bottleneck
will be the network and printers, not CUPS.

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