Sarunas Burdulis wrote:
So is the CPU load caused by the copying program (scp, rsync, samba, nfs) or by the driver? How should this be determined?
Well, that's hard to say, subjective at least from my perspective, but I find samba and nfs to be fairly low on CPU as compared to scp.
On that same Pentium III I wrote about I'm using an Intel controller now (eepro) and CPU usage when copying via NFS or samba is much lower, whil the CPU is pretty much maxed when I scp. So my deduction is that there's less CPU work involved for the intel controller than for the other ones.
Hans