Re: Question on Multiple Printers using One Outq

[Chuck Lewis <CLEWIS@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks James !

This is a new system and I'm fairly new to this job. It just went "live" over 
the
holidays and I had sort of spaced checking system tuning, etc. with all of the
converions programs and data conversion  sutff and hardware deals... Duh...

Thanks !

Chuck

James W Kilgore wrote:

> Chuck,
>
> "load balancing" of printer pools has been around for quite some time. If you 
>are
> having a slow response (i.e. not printing at rated speed) you may want to 
>check into
> the memory allocation to QSPL or number of concurrent jobs. What's the print 
>job's
> priority?
>
> You may have enough available printer queues that the print jobs are 
>thrashing from
> inactive to ineligible instead of active to wait. A bump up on subsystem 
>memory or
> active jobs (if available) may resolve the resulting slowdown.
>
> The same would happen on a QINTER subsystem with 4 Mb and *NOMAX  loaded with 
>100
> users .... zowie! (can we say B10?)
>
> James W. Kilgore
> email@James-W-Kilgore.com
>
> Chuck Lewis wrote:
>
> > Thanks, I wasn't sure. I was playing around with it yesterday going to an 
>HP and
> > an impact printer and it seemed to be slow, I suspect both of these 
>printers and
> > will try some others.
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> > Scott Swaim wrote:
> >
> > > No I don't.  There is probably some degradation because the outq has to
> > > check to see which printer is available But for me this is not noticeable
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Chuck Lewis <CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET>
> > > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> > > Date: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 12:47 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Question on Multiple Printers using One Outq
> > >
> > > >Thanks Scott !
> > > >
> > > >Do you see any "degradation" in speed when an outq is "shared" between
> > > multiple
> > > >printers (i.e. do any of the multiple printers seem to "respond" more
> > > quickly in
> > > >"single" mode as opposed to multiple) ?
> > > >
> > > >Thanks !
> > > >
> > >
>
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