Re: CA Express Printer Session Slowing Down PC

Mark--

Does your version of Windoze allow you to set priorities for running
tasks?  If so, there are 2 approaches to try:

1) Make the printing task low enough priority so it stops hogging the system.

2) Make the printing task highest user priority.

Now, #2 may seem strange, but consider how the AS/400 does it--
ideally, your printer jobs have a rather high priority.  The idea is
that a printer takes a slug of data, then chews on it, builds a page,
and prints out a page.  In the meantime, the AS/400 goes on and does
a lot of stuff.  Once the printer is ready for more data, the
transfer of data is a quick process.

Of course, this assumes that the printer has enough memory to handle
a big chunk of data at once.

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.nospam.com




>I have CA Express V4R5M0 installed on a new PC with 1.4GHZ and 128MB RAM
>running W2K SP2.  The only thing running on this PC is 2 display
>sessions and 1 printer session.  Whenever someone prints something to
>the printer the PC just DIES!!!!!!!   It takes 10-15 seconds after
>hitting a key to get a response, even just inputting data into a field.
>Any ideas???
>
>Mark Allen