Comment 11 for bug 1020048

I'll bet you it's not 'around five minutes' it's exactly five minutes.
That's the default client time out for connections to the cups server.

We have a nasty work around for this. Near the top of the
cupsd.conf and add TIMEOUT 'somebignumber' I have set mine
to 5400 which is 90 mins. As this is a school and everything runs
in 1 hour chunks that is fine. The downside is you may have a
lot of connections hanging around. I would guess that if you are
in a company where people work 9-5 that number would have to be
very big ( but smaller than the night in seconds so that any
dead connections can time out over night )

90 mins with 400 workstations to one CUPS server doesn't seem to
stress the print server particularly and it works here ( YMMV )

We would really like this fixed as well

regards

M