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Date:      Tue, 31 Mar 1998 06:26:29 +1000 (EST)
From:      Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>
To:        rdmurphy@vt.edu
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Really slow apsfilter 
Message-ID:  <Pine.OS2.3.95.980331062404.267B-100000@CENTRAL>
In-Reply-To: <199803291958.OAA25412@neale.econ.vt.edu>

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On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Russell D. Murphy wrote:

> I have a new PII-266 running 2.2.5.  At the moment, I'm the only
> one using it and it's barely loaded.  I installed apsfilter
> (4.9.3) from the 2.2.5 CD-ROM ports collection.  The printer
> (connected to the parallel port) is an HP IIp.
> 
> It is incredibly slow: 20 minutes to print 
> 
>      lptest 20 5 | lpr -P ljet2p-letter-ascii-mono
> 
> and several hours to print 5 pages from netscape (directed to lpr).
> gs is installed and seems to work fine on its own.
> 
> Any suggestions?  Right now it's so slow as to be unusable.

If your LPT port is using interupts, try changing it to polled mode.

Refer to the lptcontrol man page, and check out the -p option.

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