lpr - too many active jobs

angelb angelb at bugarin.us
Wed Oct 10 09:35:16 PDT 2007


> angelb wrote:
> > Hello all.
> >
> > Does anyone know what triggers lpr to say: "too many active jobs"?
>
> When CUPS has too many active jobs...  Look at your MaxJobs
> setting in cupsd.conf - the default is 500...
>
> --
>

Thanks for the reminder.

And just to be sure I understand that directive:
If printerX is down and jobs queued to it has reached 500, then
printerZ will not be able to print jobs(will be kept in queue)?

Thanks,
Angel




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