People running StarOffice 8 inside Sun are getting hangs when they first open a file. We've tracked this down to the printer enumeration that StarOffice is doing. ptree shows it first doing "lpstat -s", then "lpc status" (I assume "lpc status all").
I timed these two operations on my desktop system (without StarOffice). "lpstat -s" takes about half a minute. "lpc status all" takes 1 hour and 40 minutes. So, two questions for the printer experts: 1. Even allowing for the huge printers map inside Sun, an hour and 40 minutes seems excessive. Is there any chance that lpc's performance will be improved? 2. Does it make any sense for StarOffice to do both "lpstat -s" and "lpc status all"? Shouldn't it be enough to do just "lpstat -s"? If anyone is interested, the CR number is 6506846. thanks, mike
