Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 02:22:44 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "_kr" <reynolds@inwind.it>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: lpd stay dead on disk I/O Message-ID: <001a01c0f70f$110e64e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <3B2B584D.5060409@inwind.it>
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If the printers are plugged into the parallel port on the FreeBSD system, you may be better off getting hardware print servers for them and plugging them into an Ethernet cable that the server is on. You still get the benefits of the queue management on the BSD server without the hassle of crap parallel port glitches. See the following for a discussion of this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/corp-net-guide/index.html Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of _kr >Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 6:00 AM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: lpd stay dead on disk I/O > > >Hello, > >I got a serious problem with lpd on my print-server running FreeBSD >4.1.1-RELEASE; "sometimes" (I think it happens when very large files are >printed or when printer has troubles with memory) printers hang (usually >around 95% of job) and lpd falls dead, this is what it looks like with ps: > >34131 ?? D 10:01.48 /usr/sbin/lpd > >the process becomes unkillable (even turning into single user mode) and >also removing the lock file and restarting lpd helps since new process >cannot recognize printers (messages like "printer offline" "printing >disable"...); the only way to return to a proper status I found until >now was rebooting but I don't like rebooting... :) so does anyone have a >clue about that? > >ps: printers are: > >- HP laserjet 1100 >- Epson Stylus Photo 870 > >they get jobs from machines running windows 98 (on samba) and linux >(slackware 2.4.5 kernel) > > >-- >Lorenzo Scano > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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