Josh Kelley wrote: > On 3/17/06, Bruno Gomes Pessanha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm migrating a 1.000 queues windows print server with AD very critical >> enviroment to linux/cups/samba solution. Initially, everything working fine, >> but >> when reached paroximately 400 queues created the server is getting >> degradated. >> The browsing of printers shares is very low. Many times during the day smbd >> and >> winbindd need to be restarted to stop the degradation. I didn't found any >> bottleneck, memory, processor, disk i/o are fine. I have read a lot of tuning >> docs but nothing solved my problem. Some body knows where can I find more >> information? Or if there's any study case with 1000 queues in a enviroment >> with >> 10.000 workstations and aproximately 20.000 users registered in MS-AD. Is >> samba >> prepared to this kind of enviroment? > > According to this email, CUPS 1.1.x uses a linear lookup for printers, > so it may just be too inefficient to handle 1000 print queues: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba&m=113165829420082&w=2 > CUPS 1.2, which is supposed to fix this, is unfortunately still in beta.
Or you can remove the [printers] section, and manually define each printer in smb.conf. Another possible solution is to set 'printcap name = /etc/printcap' and use the one generated by cups (instead of talking to cupsd to validate printer names). cheers, jerry -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
