parallel port using lots of CPU
When I print graphics my parallel port consumes all available CPU.
Admittedly the jobs are large (40-90MG), but it seems odd so much
attention is required. Is something wrong, or do I just have to live
with it?
2.4.26 kernel on Athlon CPU.
Lexmark Optra E310 is the printer; it speaks postscript natively.
Gigabyte GA-7IXE4 motherboard; the parallel port is on the board.
Originally I was using lpd in the lpr package. With that, lpd showed
as the CPU consumer. I just switched to CUPS; now parallel:/dev/lp0
shows as the CPU consumer. My guess is that it was before, but the
time was just being attributed to lpd.
P.S. Maybe it is a hardware limitation; under Windows NT the parallel
got a kind of odd treatment, including the fact that the driver had to
poll it and some utilities couldn't use it, though they could under
Win95. I always thought it was just an NT quirk.
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