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Old 10-19-2008  
Brink


Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64
 
 

Chimney Offload State - Enable or Disable

How to Enable or Disable the Chimney Offload State in Vista

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Last edited by Brink; 04-15-2009 at 05:31 PM..
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Old 12-20-2008  
Brink


Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64
 
 

Re: Chimney Offload State - Enable or Disable

You're welcome Rickrode. I'm happy to hear that you got an improvement.

Shawn

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Old 04-15-2009  
dinesh


Windows 7 RTM 64-bit
 
 

Re: Chimney Offload State - Enable or Disable

"The goal of TCP Chimney is to reduce CPU utilization and increase network throughput for long-lived TCP connections with bulk transfers and applications that pre-post buffers. Moving TCP processing tasks to hardware frees up the server's CPU for other application tasks."
Full read: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/network/dd277645.aspx
Hi shawn, just read this at technet. But dont you think changing this setting will cause a slow performance while using other applications? I have not tried it yet. But will try it today and will post the difference.
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Old 04-15-2009  
Brink


Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64
 
 

Re: Chimney Offload State - Enable or Disable

Thank you Dinesh. I have added it for more information.
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Old 04-15-2009  
brummyfan


Vista Home Premium SP2 32bit, Windows7x32bit
 
 

Re: Chimney Offload State - Enable or Disable

Thank you Shawn for this Tutorial as it made a difference in performance.
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Old 04-15-2009  
Brink


Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64
 
 

Re: Chimney Offload State - Enable or Disable

You're welcome Brummy.
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