NAME
lpana — display LP spooler performance analysis information
DESCRIPTION
lpana
displays LP spooler performance information, which system
administrators can use to optimize the configuration of
the entire spooler system.
Options
lpana
recognizes one option:
- -d dest
Choose
dest
as the printer or the class of printers.
If
dest
is a printer, the performance analysis information
is displayed for that specific printer.
If
dest
is a class of printers, the performance analysis information
is displayed for the printers that are members of the class.
By default,
lpana
displays the performance analysis information
for all printers and/or classes.
lpana
examines
/var/adm/lp/lpana.log
for the following items:
- Wait AV
Average waiting time from when job is spooled until start of printing.
- Wait SD
Standard Deviation for waiting time.
- Print AV
Average printing time from start to end of job.
- Print SD
Standard Deviation for printing time.
- Bytes AV
Average of number of bytes printed per request.
- Bytes SD
Standard Deviation for number of bytes.
- Sum KB
Sum of bytes printed for all requests (in kilobytes).
- Num of Requests
Total number of requests since logging started.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
LANG
determines the language in which messages are displayed.
Setting
LP_WRAP_DEST
causes the destination names exceeding 14 characters to be wrapped to
multiple lines. This will ensure proper indentation of all the other
displayed fields.
WARNINGS
lpana
performs its operation on the local system only.
AUTHOR
lpana
was developed by HP.
FILES
/var/adm/lp/lpana.log
Printable version
