Re: Question on Multiple Printers using One Outq

Chuck,

"load balancing" of printer pools has been around for quite some time. If you 
are
having a slow response (i.e. not printing at rated speed) you may want to check 
into
the memory allocation to QSPL or number of concurrent jobs. What's the print 
job's
priority?

You may have enough available printer queues that the print jobs are thrashing 
from
inactive to ineligible instead of active to wait. A bump up on subsystem memory 
or
active jobs (if available) may resolve the resulting slowdown.

The same would happen on a QINTER subsystem with 4 Mb and *NOMAX  loaded with 
100
users .... zowie! (can we say B10?)

James W. Kilgore
email@James-W-Kilgore.com



Chuck Lewis wrote:

> Thanks, I wasn't sure. I was playing around with it yesterday going to an HP 
>and
> an impact printer and it seemed to be slow, I suspect both of these printers 
>and
> will try some others.
>
> Chuck
>
> Scott Swaim wrote:
>
> > No I don't.  There is probably some degradation because the outq has to
> > check to see which printer is available But for me this is not noticeable
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chuck Lewis <CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET>
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> > Date: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 12:47 PM
> > Subject: Re: Question on Multiple Printers using One Outq
> >
> > >Thanks Scott !
> > >
> > >Do you see any "degradation" in speed when an outq is "shared" between
> > multiple
> > >printers (i.e. do any of the multiple printers seem to "respond" more
> > quickly in
> > >"single" mode as opposed to multiple) ?
> > >
> > >Thanks !
> > >
> >

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