Re: Minimum Hardware Requirements
From: Alan Morris\(MSFT\) (alanmo_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/23/04
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:12:52 -0700
A big resource hit on the print server is the number and type of clients
connecting to the server. If all the clients are Win2k or XP the connection
protocol type is RPC. Win9x clients connect over SMB. SMB overhead is less
since this is like coping a file to a share.
As Tony stated, forcing the clients to render the data, rather than adding
this to the server load, will allow greater scalability.
There is a white paper on this but it does not state that with x Win2k
clients and y Win9x clients sending 75% EMF and 25% RAW formatted jobs one
needs this much ram and this much processing power.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/technologies/fileandprint/print/scalability.asp
The hardware required depends on these factors
· Number of clients
· Clients' operating system version
· Number, size, and frequency of jobs
· Type of jobs
· Number of printers
· Type of drivers
· Type of printers
Also review the other white papers at this site for additional print
information
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/technologies/fileandprint/print
-- Alan Morris Windows Printing Team Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Tony Edgecombe" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message news:uhnBNERKEHA.556@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... > If you are blocked on processor usage you might get an improvement in > performance by turning off "Enable advanced printing features" for each > printer. This will force the workstations to rip the jobs taking the load > away from the server. A potential downside is the print files may become > larger although it shouldn't be too bad for the PCL6 driver from HP. > > -- > Tony Edgecombe > www.frogmorecs.com/ng > Software for printing > > > "Wojer" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:570930A0-A608-4040-AA36-054FC62022A5@microsoft.com... > > 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. > > > >
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