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 )
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