Small delays between jobs

tof tof42 at mailinator.com
Fri Sep 5 00:52:48 PDT 2008


> tof wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am moving from an AIX 5.2 to Linux Ubuntu using CUPS as our spooler and it seems that cups introduce a delay between two jobs.
> >
> > On the AIX, when you send 2 different jobs using the lp command, there are no pause, no delay between them.
> > With cups, there is a small delay (about 4 or 5 seconds between each jobs). It's not so bad but it makes the users complain...
>  > ...
>
> There is a 5 second delay for AppSocket printers at the end to capture
> any pending back-channel data from the device.  There is currently no
> way to eliminate it.
>
> There is a pending feature request (STR #2857) for this issue:
>
>      http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2857
>
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer
>

Huuum, in fact I am using cups 1.3.2 and according to the feature request the bug appears on 1.3.7... Also the problem occurs even if the just 2 jobs sent (not heavy load). Maybe it's another kind of problem ?





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