High CPU usage while copying trough network

Hello everybody,

I have an wired network between 2 pc's. 1 running server2003 and the other
one running windows XP. When I'm copying large file's from one computer to
the other one (trough 100 mbit lan) the cpu of the windows xp machine (800
mHz) is running up to 100% and network usage is 70%. I tried to disable
firewall and virusscan, but that didn't effect the CPU, it still stays at
ceiling level.

Does anyone know how to speed up my network traffic??

Kind regards,

Jasper.

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:41:05 -0800, Jasper wrote:

>I have an wired network between 2 pc's. 1 running server2003 and the other
>one running windows XP. When I'm copying large file's from one computer to
>the other one (trough 100 mbit lan) the cpu of the windows xp machine (800
>mHz) is running up to 100% and network usage is 70%. I tried to disable
>firewall and virusscan, but that didn't effect the CPU, it still stays at
>ceiling level.
>
>Does anyone know how to speed up my network traffic??

Jasper,

get a better Ethernet adapter. It is probably using too many
interrupts and too much time to service them.

What make is it? Is the proper driver installed, latest version?

One indication that this is true is that, if you enable to view
the kernel times in Task Manager, much of the processor time is
kernel time.

Hans-Georg

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