Print job hanging - Printserver?

[Joe D. Trent]

Kurt:

Just an update. I tried your recommendation below and had one more 
episode of a job hanging. I increased the timeout values to 300 and have 
been symptom-free for most of a week. Thanks for the help!

Joe

Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> Joe D. Trent wrote:
> 
>> I'm using a couple of Linksys print servers (EPSX3), Fedora Core 6, Cups
>> 1.2.11.
>>
>> Could the print servers be biting me?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Maybe too many jobs in too rapid a sequence? Or too large ones? Or job
> titles with weird characters? Or timeouts? Or usage of 'unreserved' source
> ports?
> 
> You may want to play with the parameter settings available for the lpd://
> backend URI syntax. Especially the "?contimeout=seconds", "?timeout=seconds",
> "?reserve=rfc1179" and "?sanitize_title=yes" additions...  See also
> 
>    http://localhost:631/help/network.html?TOPIC=Getting+Started&QUERY=#LPD
> 
> for more details. In the end, a variation of
> 
>    lpd://ip-address/queuename?reserve=rfc1179&contimeout=11&timeout=12&sanitize_title=yes
> 
> may be what your Linksys-es like better...
>