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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