it crawls

[Nick Martens]

I am not sure but I think it's somehow related to samba, (you are using samba
right?) if it is, the smb protocol in konqueror should be very slow as well, you
could check that. to solve that if that's the problem add the win2k machine to 
your /etc/hosts.

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:41:27 +0200
Jiri Barton <jbar@lf1.cuni.cz> wrote:

> I have a problem with the kdeprinting module; whenever I open up a dialog via 
> Print... from any KDE app (e.g. kate, konqueror), it shows up and waits there 
> for about a couple of minutes as if searching for all available printers or 
> whatever. It just doesn't get repainted for the whole time. Then, I am able 
> to make the selections to all the options that are there just immediately. 
> When I press the button Properties..., I am to wait several minutes before 
> the Properties dialog appears. Again, when I commence the printing, I should 
> wait other about five minutes till it starts printing and the printing itself 
> is slow (this might be a separate problem)
> 
> Now, the details:
> The printer I'm trying to print is on a Win2k machine.
> 
> CUPS is okay, since I can use all the command-line tools with almost no delay. 
> I can print cupsdoprint whatever.ps and it's okay.
> 
> HP LaserJet 1220, Foomatic + Postscript
> Linux Mandrake (cooker), KDE CVS head
> Celeron 375Mhz, 256MB RAM, 10Mbs LAN
> 
> Now, I looked at the following logs during the delay
> tcdump
> ~/.xsession-errors
> /var/log/syslog
> /var/log/messages
> /var/log/cups/error_log (with cups LogLevel debug)
> 
> but none of them bear any sign of error or slow down.
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction?
> 
> TIA,  Jiri