[cups-devel] Parallel processing of jobs for one print queue

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Wed Nov 16 04:47:30 PST 2016


Stephan,

Sorry, but that is not currently possible.

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> On Nov 16, 2016, at 6:25 AM, Stephan <stephanwib at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I´m still working on a cloud based printing architecture. This will
> include a bunch of print servers with one print queue to which
> documents are sent from several users. This "virtual" print queue
> 
> -converts the incoming data to PDF
> -passes that data to a custom backend which saves it at a certain
> location in the filesystem
> 
> At this point, the print queue processes jobs sequentially which can
> lead to high waiting times. However, this type queue should be
> processing jobs in parallel to reduce waiting times and make use of
> all CPUs.
> 
> Is this possible already?
> 
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> 
> Stephan
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