LP spooler

[Rick Frazier_1]

Rp5470 running 11.i . . .LP spooler stalls out for no apparant reason. This happens 2 to 3 times a week. Once I restart it, all is fine. Any ideas?

[RAC_1]

lpshut
lpsched -v

This should give something in the lp log file.

[Geoff Wild]

Rin it verbose: lpsched -v

The check logs for any errors....

Does lpstat -t show any issues?

Rgds...Geoff

[Rick Frazier_1]

Thanks - I'll check it out

[John Jimenez]

Are you using jet direct print servers?
Several years back, trying to save money on print servers it was suggested to use the built in printer server that was availble on every terminals. I had set them up as Remote printers. Once I got more then 80, the spooler begin to flake. With ever printer added it got worse and worse until the spooler crashed once a week. I installed "jet direct" print servers and that fixed the problem.

[Rick Frazier_1]

it turns out that the problem was some tweeking we had to do in the kernel. Thanks for your help!

[Anthony Villanueva]

hi rick,

hope you don't mind me asking. I have a similar problem here. what were your changes in the kernel?

thanks!