Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 14:09:59 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Lorenzo Iania" <l.iania@sintesi.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lpr: order of print requests Message-ID: <200005012009.OAA18596@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Apr 2000 16:40:14 %2B0200." <017c01bfb11f$ab144c80$0500000a@sintesi.net> References: <017c01bfb11f$ab144c80$0500000a@sintesi.net>
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LPR queues up the reuqests and prints them in order smallest to largest to reduce the average wait time for a job at the expense of having a larger standard deviation in the wait times for jobs. Maybe this is what you are running into. I don't know if there's a way to disable this behavior or not. At least that's what I recall lpd doing years ago when I ran a unix lab in school. I didn't go check the code to see if it still did that or not. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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