In exactly the same networking environment I see the difference between
dhcp.client’s behaviour depending on what the NIC is installed.
If I use NIC with Intel82557 - everything works fine.
When I try NIC with 3com’s 509 chip - I see that Proc32 consumes ~90~98%
of CPU time. TCP/IP connectivity is there, FLEET works but the load is so
high that other IRQs are being droped very often.
If I kill dhcp.client - Proc32 stops consuming the CPU and all other IRQs
are serviced in time…
(I use Mr. R. Krten’s “sysmon”
http://ftp.parse.com/pub/sysmon/sysmon-latest-src.tar.gz utility to gauge
the CPU load)
Tony.