[cups.general] lpr - too many active jobs

[Michael R Sweet]

angelb wrote:
>> 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...
>>
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> 
> 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)?

Right, that's why we also have MaxJobsPerPrinter and MaxJobsPerUser
directives so you can set a high limit for the total number of jobs
and then a more sane limit for each queue/user.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer