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Why does multiple lpstat/enq run up CPU?

  • 1.  Why does multiple lpstat/enq run up CPU?

    Posted Thu December 15, 2011 04:53 PM

    Originally posted by: JohnMoses


    I accidentally issued the command enq -sAW to a domain several times that had around 600 queued jobs. I thought I was killing off before running it again, but apparently was not and before I knew it I had issued the command upwards of 10 times. To my surprise CPU utilization went to 100%.

    If a system had multiple users querying the printing system, I believe the same CPU utilization would occur. I'm confused why this would happen.

    Does anybody have any ideas why the high CPU utilization occurs?

    Thanks.
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