[cups.general] increasing printer count

[Henri Shustak]

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

I totally agree. I have setup one print server (Debian box running within VMWare with only 256MB RAM) this CUPS server hosts printing to over 70 desktop printers without any problems.

I think that if you have a machine capable of running Mac OS X 10.6. Then you should have no problem with that machine hosting loads of print queues. Of course it will depend upon various other factors, such as how busy these queues are and what kind of processing you are doing to the job on the CUPS server.

Keep in mind that this VM (dealing with over 70 desktop printers) instance is doing very minimal processing of the jobs and none of the queues are all that busy.

I hope this helps.

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