Thanks for the info Till, I have done some further investigation on Edgy. After removing the cache file /var/cache/cups/ppds.dat it runs much faster now, from minutes to 14 seconds. It would be nice to have a command to enforce the recreation of the cache file.
$ time lpinfo -m > /dev/null real 0m7.124s user 0m0.748s sys 0m0.220s with following foomatic-db and static PPD packages installed: $ dpkg -l "foomatic-db*" "*ppd*" "cupsys-driver*" | grep ii ii cupsys-driver-gutenprint 5.0.0~rc2-0ubuntu6 printer drivers for CUPS ii foomatic-db 20060530-1 linuxprinting.org printer support - database ii foomatic-db-engine 3.0.2-20060712-1 linuxprinting.org printer support - programs ii foomatic-db-gutenprint 5.0.0~rc2-0ubuntu6 linuxprinting.org printer support - database ii foomatic-db-hpijs 1.5-20060530-1 linuxprinting.org printer support - database ii foomatic-filters-ppds 20060530-2 linuxprinting.org printer support - prebuilt ii hpijs-ppds 2.1.10+0.9.11-2ubuntu4 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - HPIJS PPD fi When adding a printer in CUPS webinterface it takes 7 s to load the manufacturer list and again 7 s to load the model list for a manufacturer (indepent of the manufacturer selected). So it takes 14 s to setup a printer on my Athlon XP 1700+, which is acceptable. After removing some unnecessary foomatic-db and static PPD packages we can even reduce this by about a second: $ time lpinfo -m > /dev/null real 0m6.286s user 0m0.392s sys 0m0.128s with following packages installed: $ dpkg -l "foomatic-db*" "*ppd*" "cupsys-driver*" | grep ii ii cupsys-driver-gutenprint 5.0.0~rc2-0ubuntu6 printer drivers for CUPS ii foomatic-db 20060530-1 linuxprinting.org printer support - database ii foomatic-db-engine 3.0.2-20060712-1 linuxprinting.org printer support - programs ii foomatic-db-hpijs 1.5-20060530-1 linuxprinting.org printer support - database It would be nice if other people that have Edgy installed could tell how long it takes on their computers. -- the foomatic packages are too old to allow for auto configuration for cupsys https://launchpad.net/bugs/55685 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
