[KLUG Members] I'm being bad and asking first

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I think it is application specific. I have some apps which somehow hook
> Samba/CUPS bad enough that they will not go on with operation until the last
> page of the job is out of the printer AND the printer has "spun down" in the
> case of my LJ4000. Since this was with a program I am beta testing a new
> version of, I reported it to the vendor and the next build magically does not
> hook Samba/CUPS that hard... based on the vendor I was TRULY amazed to see a
> difference one beta build later.

It is apparently easy to write a Win32 app that beats the ever livin' snot out
of the print server with RPC calls;  XP can generate a steady stream of RPC
calls.  We installed a beefy dual-CPU box just to handle printing (just
Samba/CUPS) just to keep availability up.  We have some 50 odd printers and
printing works without incident.

> Anyway, 'tis my 2c on this topic. Don't completely understand it either, have
> it on my topic to research list.

Windows sucks?