| -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | On Behalf Of Patrick Powell | Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 11:42 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: LPRng: Re: job list handling |
--snip-- | | There are a couple of other gotchas there, basically dealing with | LPRM removing jobs, but this will cause the queue to be | scanned only | after all the jobs in the queue are processed in the order that | they were first in. | | I may do this, and add a 'scan_queue_only_when_all_jobs_processed' | option to invoke this. | --snip-- I would be very interested in this feature. My current setup often receives 3000-4000 jobs into a queue to be held (using the autohold feature) until a print operator is ready to release them. There are multiple queues on my server that work this way. When the printer is ready, an operator goes to a web page that will release the jobs in little batches to get around the slowness of releasing all 3k-4k jobs. The jobs are being sent to a Xerox machine that has a pretty hefty internal disk, and can happily accept all the jobs from the print server and the rip and print at close to 80 pages a minute. The problem is that the lprng daemons cannot keep up with the printer when the jobs are all released as one batch. With 4k jobs in the queue, it usually spools at about 1 job every 15-20 seconds. Anything under ~1000 jobs seems to do fine to release them all at once. Also, for my purposes, I need the jobs to print in the order they entered the queue (for downstream processes such as binding, and envelope stuffing, ect), so the above solution would be perfect. I don't need job re-ordering and such. -Adam -- Adam Crews Xerox Document Technology Specialist 755 Sycamore Avenue MailStop: SJCSYC02/1/4 Milpitas, CA 95035 1-408-527-4725 (w) 1-408-646-8771 (c) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRng MAILING LIST The address you post from or your Reply-To address 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. 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, call Patrick Powell or one of the friendly staff at Astart Technologies for help. Astart also does support for LPRng. Also, check the Web Page at: http://www.lprng.com for any announcements. Astart Technologies (LPRng - Print Spooler http://www.lprng.com) 6741 Convoy Court San Diego, CA 92111 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
