From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 1 13:13:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9240937C1B6 for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 13:11:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA12113 for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 14:11:26 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id OAA18596; Mon, 1 May 2000 14:09:59 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200005012009.OAA18596@harmony.village.org> To: "Lorenzo Iania" Subject: Re: lpr: order of print requests Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 28 Apr 2000 16:40:14 +0200." <017c01bfb11f$ab144c80$0500000a@sintesi.net> References: <017c01bfb11f$ab144c80$0500000a@sintesi.net> Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 14:09:59 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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