[Samba]Re: SAMBA 2.2.2 - slow print queue update

[Tarjei]

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Anyhow, I'm not sure it will give you more speed.
Tarjei
Joel Hammer wrote:

>Is is possible to run several different smbd's at once?
>I haven't tried this, but, you might be able to run multiple smbd's,
>each listening to a different port. I don't know much about your system,
>but there must be artful ways to redirect traffic to different ports,
>depending upon client source or other input.  Ipchains could do this,
>I belive. smbd can listen to high ports, so you could have as many smbd's
>running as you like.
>
>man smbd talks about changing port numbers.
>
>Another possibility is to give your server network interface several
>aliases, and have diverse smbd's running which only listen to one of
>several aliases. I have no idea if this would work.
>
>You may have to recompile samba to get several different versions, with
>different locations for lock files and the like. Sounds like a fun project.
>
>I'll post this question under the subject Mulitple smbd's ? and see if
>anyone who knows about this responds.
>
>Joel
>
>On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:38:06AM +0100, Klaus Jungbauer wrote:
>
>>Hello Joel,
>>
>>thanks for help.
>>
>>Joel Hammer wrote:
>>
>>>I am just an amateur, but:
>>>Would it help to partition the work? Do all clients need to access all the
>>>printers?
>>>
>>It would be a solution, but my customer wants to use only one print
>>server for administrative reasons and to build up a high availability
>>cluster (and spent no more than two systems).
>> 
>>
>>>What if you used macros, and depending on the client, only make certain
>>>printers available?
>>>
>>That won't help. The smbd spent the most time to update the printer
>>queue status and that coresponds to the number of server side configured
>>printer queues.
>>
>>
>>>Joel
>>>
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