Re: TCP/IP LPD benchmark

[DAsmussen <DAsmussen@xxxxxxx>]

Jerry,

In a message dated 98-03-13 20:05:36 EST, you write:

> We have just gotten benchmark news on a 147 page report (straight text)
>  printing on an AS400 via TCP/IP.
>  
>  Situation One:  
>  
>  AS/400 model 200, unstressed, V3R2, HP 3X Printserver (TCP/IP aware
>  product) on ethernet LAN, 10baseT, with HP Laserjet 4Plus printer.  It took
>  3.5 hours and never got done (59% CPU util).  Host print transform
>  dramatically impacted the AS/400.
>  
>  Situation Two:  
>  
>  Synapse WinAPPC TCP/IP LPD Client started printing the report after 3
>  minutes.  This is because of the ability of the Synapse to handle SCS print
>  strings in native mode.
>  
>  Only change on the AS400 outq is to make Transform to *NO and destination
>  type to *OS400.
>  
>  Installed by inexperienced user to boot.
>  
>  HMMMMMM.

Hmmmmm, indeed.  It appears that the same "inexperienced" user was responsible
for both configurations.  Not sure what the "HP 3X Printserver" is supposed to
do.  We have more than 10 HP LJV's installed _with_ host print transform
running (to generate bar code) using "ye olde AS/400 LPD" through Ethernet.
Each and every one of them turns out more than 147 pages in an hour, and
several of us would be "hung by the neck until dead" if they didn't...

One Experience,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"When is a bug not a bug?  When your vendor provides you with a "feature"
which interferes with your normal operations, yet you can find no useful
purpose for it." -- Amalgam
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