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Windows File server heavy cpu usage - Render Farm with many clients reading data at once

A few things to note, that 40Gbps NIC is only connected to one socket/NUMA-node - so if it's associated with the second socket then any file-sharing workload handled by the first socket will have to ...
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Windows File server heavy cpu usage - Render Farm with many clients reading data at once

The system process being that busy means the OS is having do deal with heavy overhead, either from its internal workings or from device drivers. Some likely culprits: NIC firmware/drivers (are they ...
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