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

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Mon Sep 25 08:05:16 PDT 2006


Carlos Santiviago wrote:
> ...
> 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.

Right, and cups-polld will space the printers it discovers to take
up as much of that as possible, with a minimum rate of 1 printer per
second.  So if you have 900 printers and classes, it will take 15
minutes for all of the printers and classes to appear.

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