Subject: Re: Extremely slow printing from Mac to Linux/netatlk
From: andrew morgan (morgan@orst.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 08 2000 - 15:41:37 EDT
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Matthew Keller wrote:
> > Stephen Lubbs wrote:
> > Any Ideas as to why the data xfer between the mac and netatlk is so
> > slow? Is DDP really that slow? File xfers, which use appletalk over
> > TCP as a transport, are very fast.
> > I'm at work now so I can't provide config details but if they would be
> > useful I will be glad to post them later when I get home.
>
> It's not DDP, itself (although throwing around 20mb PS files over 10mb
> using AT is a bit nasty) - The PAPD subsystem appears to be rather, um,
> how do I say this without offending diligent minds..... Gross, I guess.
> Rather gross. I've looked at it a bit, and it's quite crazy- Makes my
> eyes bug out.
> I love typing the word "Hi" in simpletext on a Mac, and Notepad on a
> Windows box, print to the same printer (Netatalk for the Mac, and Samba
> for the Windows box) and watch the Windows job print, and then 2-4
> minutes later see the mac job-- Helps me convince people to buy more
> Intel machines. :-D
Yeah, papd is slower than samba, but I don't see anything as slow as you
guys are talking about... A "print desktop" command takes about 30
seconds from when you click print to when it starts printing. Maybe there
is something else wrong?
Andy
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