CUPS 1.3.6 - performance issue in AIX

[Bernd Krumböck]

> Hello all.
>
> I got a chance to install and started testing CUPS 1.3.6:
>
> First, here's my observation in 1.3.5:
> 1. When the client is set to "LogLevel debug2", it would take a very
>    long time(>15min) for an lpstat to list 2700 printer queues or for
>    an lpr(>9min) to print.
>
> 2. When the client is set to "LogLevel info", running an "lpstat -p",
>    the cupsd daemon would die leaving no trace. The error_log file
>    have no entry for it(possibly because it's in "info").
>
> 3. When the client is set to whatever LogLevel, AND, the remote.cache
>    already exist, response time from lpstat(~5sec) to list all 2700
>    printer queues or lpr(~3sec) to print.
>

Hi!

I assume this is not AIX specific. We saw similar performance problems on Linux and HP-UX. But on our systems the cups daemon doesn't crash.

Link to my bug report:
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2755

regards!
Bernd