printout times SunOS spooler ./. CUPS 1.4.3

Paul paul.conklin at cerner.com
Mon Jun 6 08:23:03 PDT 2011


See my post here
http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?s22859+gcups.general+v22866+T0
for an interim fix if it is snmp until 1.4.7 is up

if that works on one, I just used a loop to assign the dummy driver to each printer

for line in `lpstat -v | cut -f3 -d' ' | cut -f1 -d:`
do
lpamdin -p $line -P dummy.ppd
done

> 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.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> 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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