kevin lyda said:
> ok, the bsd print system has an idea of job number. the max seems to be
> 1000, then it wraps. but what happens if there are more then 1000 jobs
> on the queue. believe it or not we're getting close to that issue, so
> i'm wondering if anyone else has had a similar issue?
>> essentially we have a bunch of one page invoices to generate. we're
> getting near the 1000 mark, and i'm getting nervous. i know i could
> just check the code, but i thought i'd see if someone has seen this here
> first...
Collision is what happens I'm afraid -- you lose one of the jobs AFAIK
(Your Linux distro may have fixed it in a patch though).
Even if they have fixed it, if the print jobs are sent remotely using
rm/rp then you still have a collision problem.
I'd suggest checking one of the other printing systems like LPRng, as the
BSD one is pretty brittle all-round and I'm surprised you haven't run into
any other problems yet! ;)
--j.
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