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From: Wojer (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:51:04 -0700

I have a Win2k Print server with about 450 print queues on it, all HP 4000 and up. We are experiencing some performance problems so I have been looking at the load on the server and I am trying to figure out if upping the hardware will help. This is what I am seeing please let me know what you think I should be using for hardware.

Over a normal 5 hour time period the server is printing about 6000 jobs consisting of about 12000 pages, an average job size is about 1.5MB but can go as high as 20MB. I would like to have enough headroom to handle a 40-50% increase in volume.

Please help Microsoft has NO guidelines to help size print servers – BAD BILL – it only one of the core operations in EVERY company.