I've been troubleshooting this for months now and I'm not getting anywhere but
more confused. I have one file server that keeps spiking the system service at
random times. Nothing else is running on the server, no AV or other apps.
When this happens my win7 clients trying to access files on that server will
come to a screeching halt. That's the really strange part, my XP clients keep
working like nothing is wrong. I've done all the trouble shooting I can find
for this problem, it's very hard to narrow down exactly what's causing the
"system" process to spike. I noticed that one of the win7 clients in
particular was moving a lot of data (receiving .5 MB/sec steady) but they had
no apps running off the server, weren't searching, search service was turned
off. But on that client it was the "system" service that was receiving the
data from that server. I rebooted the client and the server cpu immediately
went back to normal. My googling can't find anything that links the two
together. Just hoping someone else has encountered this. Both client and
server are patched but this has been going on for a long time, at least the
last couple years.
Thanks
