Hi there,
This goes back to a discussion of Jan 16 2004 with a subject of "I'm
lost with accounting", in particular I'm replying to a post made by
Jamie Jennings...
> Also, you need to adjust the following lines in ifhp.conf to have
> appropriate settings for your environment. These lines affect how
> pagecounting will be done. 'pagecount_poll_start' specifies how many
> times to check the page counter when a job starts. In my case, I
> have it check once (ie. just get the number). Then it continues
> polling the pagecounter at 15 second intervals
> ('pagecount_interval') until it gets 2 ('pagecount_poll_end')
> consecutive values that match. Again, adjust these values based on
> testing with your printers (ie. the speed of your printers and the
> amount of delay you want/need between jobs).
> ##pagecount_poll=5
> pagecount_poll_end=2
> pagecount_poll_start=1
> pagecount_interval=15
> pagecount_timeout=0
I've been experimenting with various values for these variables with
an HP2300. I'm using ifhp as an output filter *only*, purely in an
attempt to get it to write start/end pagecounts to the acct file.
However, on experimenting with the above variables, I find the results
to be unsatisfactory purely on the grounds that to get accurate start
and end pagecounts, I have to slow down the printing process to an
unnacceptable degree. For instance, I've found that I have to have a
pagecount_poll_start value of 2, as otherwise it will sometimes come
back with a value of 0. Also, I seem to need a pagecount_interval of
at least 10 and a pagecount_poll_end value of at least 3 for the end
pagecount to be logged correctly. All this means that every print job
has a delay of at least 10 seconds at the start and at least 20
seconds at the end. This is unacceptable for a busy printer.
I was wondering if other people have come up across this kind of
problem and what they do to overcome it?
Cheers
Toby Blake
University of Edinburgh
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