Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!HVRFORD!E_DAVIES From: E_DAVIES@HVRFORD.BITNET Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell Subject: print screens of graphics screens over a Novell network Message-ID: Date: 12 Feb 90 20:39:00 GMT Sender: Novell LAN Interest Group Reply-To: Novell LAN Interest Group Lines: 15 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway X-Envelope-to: novell@SUVM.BITNET X-VMS-To: IN%"novell@suvm" We've noticed that print screening a graphics screen (either from an EGA or a Hercules + equipped workstation) to an IBM Graphics Printer hung off the server takes about 5 times as long as print screening the same image on a non-networked machine to a local printer. We're running Adv. Netware 2.15a on a '286 server over ThinWire Ethernet cabling. The workstations are '286 machines equipped with Paradise EGA (or Hercules +) cards and WD 8003 NICs. An odd characteristic of all of this is that once one depresses the Shift & PrntScrn keys, the server's hard drive access light will flicker briefly about once every 8 seconds. The hard disk's access time is supposed to be around 18 ms and I would expect better throughput than this on our network. Any thoughts on all of this? Any buffers I could fiddle with to optimize caching or some such? The server's got 4 MB. Thanks. Eric Davies Haverford College