printing performance

[Malc holden]

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> Hi,
> I have CUPS server 1.1.23 running on SuSE Linux V 10 Kernel
> 2.6.16.21-0.8-smp #1.
> =20
> I am also using two Solaris clients running CUPS 1.1.14 and a Windows
> client on Server 2003.
> =20
> I can have about 8 (HP) network printers configured using sockets with
> no problems at all. As soon as I add a 9th lp, lpstat and lpadmin slow
> down. I can add up to about 11 printers at which point a lpstat -p takes
> approx 16 minutes to complete, using lp to print takes about 9 minutes.
> The printers are all on a different subnet from the print server and
> clients.
> =20
> I have no problems running these commands on the Solaris clients only
> the Linux CUPS server.
> =20
> I have also stopped cups-lpd from xinetd.
> Regards
> Malc
>
I have fixed this problem by doing a sanity check on the cupsd.conf file.
I changed the following:-
HostNameLookups Off
MaxClientsPerHost 50
BrowseProtocols cups
BrowseAddress @LOCAL
BrowseInterval 140