HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 6 111
Configuring Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers
Creating and Configuring Queues
a lesser value after they have submitted a job by using the pdmod
command. You, as an administrator, can set the value of the attribute for
a job to any value between 0 to 100. You can also use an initial-value-job
object associated with a logical printer to set the job-priority
initial-value-job attribute to any valid value. Then all jobs submitted to
the logical printer will receive that priority. See “Increasing the Priority
of a User Job” in Chapter 11 for more information about using the
job-priority attribute to manage jobs.
Configuring the Queue Backlog Attributes
Queue backlog is the condition that arises when many jobs or large jobs
are waiting in a queue, causing users to wait a longer amount of time
than usual to receive their printed output. The value of the non-settable
queue attribute queue-backlog represents the estimated amount of
time HPDPS requires to process all jobs in the queue. The value of the
non-settable queue attribute backlogged specifies whether a queue is
currently defined as backlogged.
NOTE Non-settable attributes areattributes for which you cannot explicitly set
a value; see the HP Distributed Print Service User’s Guide for more
information.
You can configure the following queue attributes to specify the amount
of time that is to represent a backlogged condition. The values you
specify either use or effect the values of the above non-settable
attributes.
backlog-upper-bound This single-valued attribute specifies
the amount of processing time, in
hours and minutes, that will be
considered a backlogged queue.When
the calculated value of the
queue-backlog attribute is greater
than the value of the
backlog-upper-bound attribute,
HPDPS changes the value of the
backlogged attribute to true. There
is no default value for the
backlog-upper-bound attribute. If
this attribute does not have a value,