Hi, On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 04:12:07PM +0000, Toby Blake wrote: > > ... so after the job has successfully printed, it waits for an lpd > process to exit, which takes 14 minutes. > > What are the lpd processes doing in the time that chews up so much CPU > - this is very much related to the size of the queue - if I removed > half the jobs in the queue, the delay between jobs would significantly > decrease (I know this because I've tried it).
Couldn't this be that your server is short on memory and spend all its time swapping memory ? What does the 'top' command says wrt memory usage ? bye Jerome Alet -- "Now that I'm connected to the Internet, everybody seems to know that I've got a small dick." - Me. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
