SAMBA 2.2.2 - slow print queue update

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>From: Klaus Jungbauer <klaus.jungbauer at class.de>
>Organization: Class AG
>To: Gerald Carter <jerry at samba.org>
>Cc: samba at samba.org
>Subject: Re: SAMBA 2.2.2 - slow print queue update
>References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201240820570.24636-100000 at queso.plainjoe.org>
>> >
>> > The first issue is a huge amount of 390 (!) network printers to serve.
>> 
>> That is a lot. :-)
>
>printers, not queues ...
>

A possible alternative might be to use LPRng (if you're not already
using it).

A lot of the time spent doing an 'lpq' for a network printer is network
time, and standard 'lpd' talks to the network printer every time an
'lpq' is run.

In LPRng the 'lpd' maintains a copy of the status of the network printer
locally, so the 'lpq' command returns much, much quicker, especially if
a network printer is down.

Caveat: It's a while since I used LPRng, and I didn't exhaustively test
this behaviour, but if definately seemed to behave like that to me.
Very handy.

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