kathryn@sunkist.west.sun.com (Kathryn Fielding) (09/27/89)
We have a Sun 3/280 with an ALM2 board in it, running Sun OS 4.0.3. One of
the printers connected is a Calcomp 5835 Electrostatic Plotter. Because of
the size of the files we're printing, we're using the lpr -s option to
send the files to the plotter. When we send a large file to the plotter,
it bogs the system down to the point where the keyboard stops responding,
and everything else basically hangs for a (too long) while. I can
understand maybe slowing the system down a little, but completely dead for
long periods of time (> 10 minutes) seems a little much.
If anyone has any suggestions, recomendations, pointers, we will be most
grateful. We've tried some experimentation with xon/xoff but haven't
figured it out .
Thanks
Kathryn
Kathryn Fielding {uunet|zardoz|sun!sunkist}!ohio!kathryn
System Administrator kathryn@thomas.com
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