Re: LPD question...

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: LPD question...

I've found that lpd performance is usually constrained in the memory pools and maxact (max active ) for that pool. If you look at wrksyssts (work system status) and press F11 once or twice you will see the pool labelled *spool (on my S10 it's pool 3). If qpfradj sysval is off, and this pool is small. Redbook Printing V recommends minimum 6 meg memory for any lpd, more if you have many active at once. Also max active needs to be big enough to cover how many active at one time. You have to figure out how many need resources at the same moment. I have 20 moderately used printers and have max active at 5 and 10 meg memory allocated.

I have also bumped the lpd servers to 5.

jim

----- Original Message -----

From: Hatzenbeler, Tim

To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'

Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 7:48 PM

Subject: LPD question...

I have a whole bunch of remote printers connected via tcp/ip...

but they have some pretty slow print times, during peak usage times during the day...  My question is this?  I was looking at the # of instances that I autostart on the LPD configuration screen and it gives the value from 1 to 20, and mine is set to '2'.  Would increasing that # help at all?  Or will it increase automatically if it needs to?  Or maybe it doesn't effect this issue at all...

just wondering....

tim