[ale] Performance Problems

[James P. Kinney III]

On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 11:10 -0400, Vikram Nanda wrote:
> My system has been having 2 performance problems - 
> 
> 1) Save as --> The application ( Firefox 1.5) just hangs for about
> 30-40 sec as soon as the save as window appears.

Check the file count in the directory being saved to. I have several k
of files and it just takes forever. So I moved the default save-to
location and it sped up nicely.

> 2) Printing - I have a HP Officejet 4215. Installation was smooth - I
> didn't have to do anything - the system recognized the printer and
> automatically installed all the driver. Print quality is great. BUT it
> takes 1 minute between issuing the print command and the start of
> printing. During this time the application hangs.
> Here is the print command  "/usr/bin/lpr -P HPOffJet4200 -o
> PageSize=A4"

Are you really using A4 paper? The printer may be smart enough to
recognize it's stuffed with letter and it's retranslating the page. 
> 
> What could be the cause of these problems? Are they interrelated?
> 
> 
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