Large print jobs failure

[gsor]

Hi, friends
Large print jobs fail on network printer (printronix 7000 ). If there is a print job of 900 pages, I only get the first 100 pages. Is there anything to adjust on Hp unix B11.0 / 9000 in order to print the whole job at once? Any idea appreciated.
Kind regards
George

[Wouter Jagers]

That looks like a decent printer. Is your /var large enough to cope with the files ? (/var/spool/lp is where your jobs shoul be held)

Cheers,
Wout

[Khashru]

Make sure you have enough space for spooling. check /var.

[Bill Hassell]

Look at syslog. Does it have disk space error messages for /var? If so, follow these steps to add more space.

Start by verifying that you have a *LOT* of free space in /var. A few dozen megs is not enough. If you don't have the space, you'll need to:

1. add another disk
2. add it to vg00 or start a new volume group
3. create a 500 or 1000 meg lvol
4. create a new filesystem on the new volume
5. mount it using a temporary mountpoint
6. stop the spooler (lpshut) when convenient.
7. copy everything in /var/spool/lp/request to the temporary mountpoint.
8. verify the copy by counting files and directories:
find /var/spool/lp/request -type f | wc -l
find /tempmount -type f | wc -l
find /var/spool/lp/request -type d | wc -l
find /tempmount -type d | wc -l
9. remove the contents of the /var/spool/lp/request directory (leave the empty directory)
10. add the new lvol to /etc/fstab with a mountpoint /var/spool/lp/request
11. umount the tempmount.
12. mount the lvol using:
mount /var/spool/lp/request
This will verify the entry in /etc/fstab
13 verify the new mountpoint with bdf

Now try the big job again.

If there are no error messages about disk space, this may be a network problem that will take a large scale trace to determine the reason.

[gsor]

Hi, friends

There is a lot of free space in /var

#bdf
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/dev/vg00/lvol7 1536000 1140532 374842 75% /var

used 1140532 bytes

avail 378440 kbytes

%used 75% /var

Besides there are no file system full errors in syslog concerning /var

Any idea about â large scale traceâ to determine the reason appreciated

Kind regards
George

[Bill Hassell]

Since you are using a non-HP printer, you'll have to use a tool like Wireshark which runs on both PCs and HP-UX. Wireshark formats network traces in a very useful format. However, you'll need your network department to figure out what closed the connection at the end of the trace.