From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jun 22 14:08:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA23549 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 14:08:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA23544 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 14:08:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with UUCP id XAA21508; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 23:00:25 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA23031; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 22:27:40 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970622222740.00971@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 22:27:40 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: "Jesse D. Troy" Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apsfilter and Epson Stylus Color printer References: <33AC6BF6.167EB0E7@vt.edu> <19970622102814.41455@klemm.gtn.com> <33AD7482.41C67EA6@vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.75 In-Reply-To: <33AD7482.41C67EA6@vt.edu>; from Jesse D. Troy on Sun, Jun 22, 1997 at 02:52:51PM -0400 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, Jun 22, 1997 at 02:52:51PM -0400, Jesse D. Troy wrote: > I uncommented the set -x line and looked at my log file. I found the > commands that execute a2ps and ghostscript. I executed these commands > on the command line and the printing process took the same amount of > time as it did when I let apsfilter do the work. I did find though, > that if i just use cat (cat > /dev/ltp0) to print an ascii > text file it prints very fast...I don't know if this means anything or > not... What CPU do you use, which clock rate ? How much RAM, how much swap. Could you perhaps perform a "pstat -s" if the process is running and perhaps a snapshot of top's output, but don't forget to hide the idle processes using 'i'. -- Andreas Klemm | klemm.gtn.com - powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html