Why cups-polld takes so long to load remote printers?

Carlos Santiviago segfault at gmail.com
Mon Sep 25 07:26:55 PDT 2006


> Carlos Santiviago wrote:
>  > ...
> >> That's a function of the BrowseInterval setting in the cupsd.conf
> >> file.  cups-polld will then space the printer advertisements so
> >> that they don't overload the local system...
> >>
> >
> > Let me explain what is happening here. Whenever i start cupsd (and
> > cups-polld starts too because of BrowsePoll definitions), it takes
> > like 15  minutes to load ALL classes and printers of my remote
> > printer servers. I have 5 servers distributed across WAN links, and
> > those servers have like 100 printers and 100 classes too. I am sure
> > that is not a bandwidth problem, since they are 8mbps.
>
> Again, that's a function of the BrowseInterval setting in cupsd.conf -
> what is it set to?

Its set to 7200. AFAIK, it defines that every 7200 seconds, it will get information about remote printers. But im referring to the spent time to get the remote printers when i start cupsd, which takes 15 minutes to complete.

>
> FWIW, if you use CUPS 1.2 or higher, cupsd will remember the remote
> printers from the previous run and display them immediately...
>

Didnt know that, i'll try it, thanks!





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