I would like to throttle large file transfers.

Even with a multi-gig file copy, you shouldn't be saturating your server
unless you are not on a switched network. If you are using Windows Explorer
to perform the copy then I can understand why your CPU utilization can go up
that much. Try doing a simple copy or xcopy command (or better yet robocopy
if you have the windows resource kit) and see if performance improves.
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> Does anyone have suggestions on how to throttle a file copy command?
>
> I've recently been tossing large multigigabyte files (backups and
> databases) around our small LAN. I've gotten a few complaints from
> people who receive various errors or slowdowns when I do this.
> Typically the files are streaming off the Server, so my best guess is
> that I am saturating the Server's network connection.
>
> Also, I've had occasions in the past where I've been moving big files
> around on my local workstation. The large disk I/O can sometimes
> prevent me from doing other work in the foreground. A speed-limited
> copy would be useful in these cases too.
>
> I'm imagining a simple (scriptable) command that would be called in a
> manner similar to:
> "copyslow /speed=5MBS c:\here\this.file.zip d:\there.file.zip"
>
> I've considered FTP, but it's rather inconvenient and not quite as
> flexible.
>
>
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