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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.map.com!usenet From: jay@map.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Question about Printing speed. Date: 4 Dec 1995 19:59:52 GMT Organization: Dr. Fish's Answering Machine Lines: 20 Message-ID: <49vjvo$76g@news.map.com> Reply-To: jay@map.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp75.map.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 Would anyone know why the fbsd print daemon sends stuff to the printer as slow as it seems to here? I'd installed Ghostscript (and re-compiled to remove X support from it), and tested it by printing a PS-ified man page (sa.8), and it took roughly 4 hours to print. While the output was certainly nice, I know my Deskjet 540 can print faster than a line per minute or two. My system: Fbsd 2.0.5, 386DX-33 with 387, 8 Mb RAM, 16 Mb swap partition. No X windows. I also noticed that it seemed to print faster when the system was under more load than "just" the print daemon doing its thing. Thanks for any suggestions. // Roland Jay Roberts - Team OS/2 - // Internet: jay@map.com // FidoNet: Roland Roberts @ 1:321/305.5