Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!csrobe@icase.arpa From: csrobe@icase.arpa (Charles S. Roberson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: loadsharing printers Message-ID: <8258@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 21:58:10 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-adm.8258 Posted: Fri Jul 10 21:58:10 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 13:00:00 EDT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 23 I help administer a SUN 3 system with 14 workstations running SUN release 3.3 of BSD 4.2 UNIX. We do a quite a bit of document preparation. (Mostly TeX and troff stuff). Anyway we just purchased a second laser writer and are in the process of integrating it into our system. What we would like to do is provide some form of loadsharing mechanism for our two printers. The two printers are identical so we can make them transparent to the applications. What experiences has anyone had with doing this. We have considered a sharing load based on accumulated page counts for both printers and also based on current queue size. The quickest way we can think of is to use a shell around lpr to determine which printer to use. Has anyone tried having one queue serve more than one printer? How were the daemons handled? Thanks in advance. Chip Roberson csrobe@icase.arpa ...seismo!gmu90x!wmcs!csrobe