[cups.general] printout times SunOS spooler ./. CUPS 1.4.3

[Mike Sweet]

Most likely this is caused by the SNMP supply/status lookups. The forthcoming CUPS 1.4.7 release fixes this issue by disabling them for raw queues.

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On Jun 6, 2011, at 5:54 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> we are migrating SunOS customers from the old SunOS spooler lpsched to CUPS
> 1.4.3 and are facing the following interesting problem:
> 
> in both systems the LAN printer is configured as raw IP to port 9100 and it
> is the same model;
> 
> if you fire up 20x "lp -c -d druck6 file" from a shell script or with CUPS
> 20x "lpr -l -P druck6 file" with the same ~1 KByte PCL file, it takes
> 
> lpsched: 92 secs
> CUPS: 203 secs
> 
> and you can hear short delays while the pages send out from CUPS get
> printed;
> 
> before watching the details with TCPDUMP, is there any explanation for this?
> note: it is only plain PCL, no PostScript gets involved;
> 
> Thanks
> 
>        matthias
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