LPD question...

First off, remote printers is normally an LPR concept in that the LPD server is
not necessarily an iSeries LPD server.  So, what follows applies to iSeries LPD,
assuming that's your target system.

More jobs will allow more LPR clients to "connect" more quickly and start
processing, but it won't speed up the print job itself.  The number of servers
is your "backlog" and a larger backlog handles more LPR requests in a short
period of time than a small one (the SBMJOB call gates the ramping up of new LPD
server jobs).  If your LPR clients report inability to connect to LPD
frequently, then you need a larger CHGLPDA NBRSVR value.

> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 16:48:47 -0700
> From: "Hatzenbeler, Tim" <thatzenbeler@clinitech.net>
> Subject: LPD question...
> 
> I have a whole bunch of remote printers connected via tcp/ip...
> but they have some pretty slow print times, during peak usage times during
> the day...  My question is this?  I was looking at the # of instances that I
> autostart on the LPD configuration screen and it gives the value from 1 to
> 20, and mine is set to '2'.  Would increasing that # help at all?  Or will
> it increase automatically if it needs to?  Or maybe it doesn't effect this
> issue at all...

-- 
Jeffrey Stevens/Endicott/IBM
TCP/IP (Telnet/TN5250E-RFC2877/WSG/LPD) & iSeries Connect (B2B)
IBM iSeries Software Programming Lab, Endicott, NY 13760
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