Hi folks. I'm running snv_127 and using CUPS as my printing system. I've been having some trouble printing, so I sat down tonight to take a look at it. I followed the advice in:
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=12719 and replaced the USB backend. This allowed me to add my LaserJet 1020 printer and print a test page. I can also share the printer and use it from my wife's MacBook. So far, so good. The problem that I'm having is that CUPS is really, really (really!) slow for me. When using the Web interface at http://localhost:631, some operations (e.g., loading the admin page) can take longer than a minute to complete. By contrast, the CUPS subsystem on the Mac does this in less than a second. Printing a test page from my wife's Mac to the Solaris box just took about 10 minutes (and it got an error printing the CUPS graphic, but I think that's probably something else). Even the command line programs are slow. lpq can take more than a minute to run. Is this something that other folks have encountered? Is there anything that I can do to help diagnose the problem (e.g., trussing cupsd while it's printing or capturing the printing traffic?) Steve Green
