dplatt@coherent.uucp (Dave Platt) (02/04/88)
In article <3962@husc6.harvard.edu> ddl@husc6.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani) writes: > By the way, has anyone noticed that leaving the STATUS feature > enabled reduces reliability? Absolutely... it seemed to be responsible for 98% of the printer wedges (papif or lpd going away without warning) that we were experiencing. I added some trace and alarm code to the code, to little or no advantage... sometimes the protocol would appear to stop, sometimes printer errors would occur, and sometimes the whole process would steal silently away into nowhere, leaving no traces. Once I disabled the status-watch feature, printer reliability improved by an order of magnitude at least. -- Dave Platt UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt Internet: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@sun.com, ...@uunet.uu.net