doner@henri.ucsb.edu (John Doner) (02/10/90)
The following situation baffles both me and Apple Tech Support: Backgrounder is slowing down printing dramatically. In some tests we ran yesterday, involving printing a 15 page TeXtures document, we observed that the time spent with the "the print server is spooling your document" dialog up was about 2 minutes when Background printing was turned off, and went up to 5 minutes when it was turned on. The actual printing was fairly prompt in both cases, just the spooling process was slow. Printing with other programs is equally slow, although we haven't tried to time them so carefully. I'm using Multifinder 6.1b7, System 6.0.3, Laserwriter 5.2. The only programs loaded at the time were Finder, NCSA Telnet 2.3, and TeXtures 1.2. A fairly ordinary set of INITs: Moire, Icon Colorizer, Tops and its associated Interbase and Softtalk, SFScrollInit, Responder, Broadcast, Appleshare, and Suitcase II. None of the programs had anything to do; nothing was going on besides the printing. So why was Backgrounder taking so long to do its spooling? Anybody else see this sort of behavior? John E. Doner | "The beginner...should not be discouraged if...he Mathematics, UCSB | finds that he does not have the prerequisites for Santa Barbara, CA 93106| reading the prerequisites." doner@henri.ucsb.edu | --Paul Halmos, Measure Theory