[cups.general] Performance issues in cups 1.3

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Mon Feb 25 15:24:41 PST 2008


angelb wrote:
>> I commented out have_poll and did a quick and dirty change in ipp.c (the 10 second loop to a 1 second loop)
>>
>> And now we have MUCH better performance. Same as in 1.2.7.
>>
>> Im writing some tools to be able to load LOTS of printjobs and check for perfomance problems. As sending >50k jobs per day.
>>
>> /Johan "SmallOne" Bernhardsson
>>
> 
> Does anyone know if this performance issue been addressed in 1.3.6?

We haven't added any additional tests WRT poll() since the issue
was limited to specific versions of HP-UX not honoring the poll()
timeout.

> I'm testing 1.3.5 and running into the same problem with AIX and
> Solaris clients.

It would be useful to find out where the performance bottleneck is.
Have you done any profiling to determine where cupsd is spending the
most time?

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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