Re: XP Pro file sharing (SMB) performance problem

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I've narrowed down the problem to amazingly bad latency in responding
to network requests: I've got ping times from the server with mean of
94ms, mean deviation of 56ms. Other machines on my network (including
an almost identical machine, a PII-400 with 96Mb of RAM and XP Pro SP2)
have a mean delay of 3ms with less than 0.3ms deviation.

Any ideas what might cause such a bad latency problem? There's no
firewall or antivirus running on the machine, and I've disabled the QoS
packet scheduler (which had no noticeable effect).

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