[cups.general] increasing printer count

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Wed Feb 17 10:32:00 PST 2010


On Feb 17, 2010, at 9:58 AM, farbod golkar wrote:
> I'm setting up a print server using Mac OS X 10.6 and after I add over 20 printers the entire server starts to lag. I contacted Apple and they said that the cupsd process is designed to only handle up to 20 printers. The agent said that if I wanted to, I could go into the cupsd.conf file and modify some parameters to let me add more than 20 printers.


If you can tell me who you talked to at Apple about this (direct to my email), I'd appreciate it.

CUPS is designed to support thousands of print queues. Any scaling issues depend on the printers being used, your system (how much memory, CPUs, etc.), and the number of simultaneous users and print jobs you need to support.

The following page provides advice for configuring your CUPS server to support a particular load:

    http://www.cups.org/estimator.php

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer







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