[Sheflug] CUPS printing and parallel process

["Morris, David (Allvac, UK)" <david [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've just put a printer on my SuSE 9.2 box - parallel interface and set
it up to use CUPS.

It's doing local filtering (the printer is a Brother HL5140) to convert
from PS to PCL5.

It's awfully slow though. Each page seems to take 15s+ to appear.
Looking on 'top', the culprit appears to be 'parallel'. I doubt this is
doing the conversion itself, so I can only guess it's a port polling
problem?

I'm printing from XP using IPP to http://server:631/....

The server machine itself is a Athlon 2500XP so it's no slouch. It's not
a bottleneck on the Win side either - that's an 64bit Athlon.

Anyone got any ideas?

-- 
David
___________________________________________________________________

Sheffield Linux User's Group -
http://www.sheflug.co.uk/mailfaq.html

  GNU the choice of a complete generation.