When transferring using NetBIOS (SMB) over TCP/IP, at 800 kb/s, I'm
getting almost 100% CPU usage. Is that the way it is meant to be?. The
server is a AMD K6-2 with 128 MB RAM running Windows 2000 Server SP4.
The client, I've tried with both Windows 2000 Professional SP4 and
Windows XP SP1, with the same results. In the client I do NOT get 100%
CPU usage, I get about 20%, but in this case it is a AMD XP 2200+. In
both client and server, all of the CPU overhead is showed by the task
manager graphs as kernel activity.
The server is not running other CPU consuming software. As I said, it is
the kernel who spends almost all the CPU. I've tried reinstalling
Windows with no result.

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> When transferring using NetBIOS (SMB) over TCP/IP, at 800 kb/s, I'm
> getting almost 100% CPU usage. Is that the way it is meant to be?. The
> server is a AMD K6-2 with 128 MB RAM running Windows 2000 Server SP4.
> The client, I've tried with both Windows 2000 Professional SP4 and
> Windows XP SP1, with the same results. In the client I do NOT get 100%
> CPU usage, I get about 20%, but in this case it is a AMD XP 2200+. In
> both client and server, all of the CPU overhead is showed by the task
> manager graphs as kernel activity.
> The server is not running other CPU consuming software. As I said, it is
> the kernel who spends almost all the CPU. I've tried reinstalling
> Windows with no result.

Are there newer drivers available for your NIC card?

What is the image name in Task Manager of the process hoggin all
the CPU?

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Matt Hickman.
Earth is what tourists want to look at even though they've just left it.
Still, Earth is pretty. The changing weather is interesting if you don't
have to be in it. Did you ever have to endure a summer in Omaha?
Robert A. Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
"The Menace from Earth" c.1957