Any easy way to find out who is eating up server bandwidth

Hello,

I work for a graphics company where they work on 10 GB files. They'd like
to leave the bandwidth open instead of limiting anyone but occassionally
they want to know who is using up the bandwidth - is there an easy way to
find this out?

Thanks

"boe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I work for a graphics company where they work on 10 GB files. They'd
> like to leave the bandwidth open instead of limiting anyone but
> occassionally they want to know who is using up the bandwidth - is there
> an easy way to find this out?

No there is not.

Also you need to define "using bandwidth". When working on a "file" there
is Zero bandwidth being used,...it makes no difference how big a file is.
The actual bandwidth usage occurs only very briefly when the file is being
loaded into RAM to work on it and then a second time when the File is being
"saved" back out to the location it was read from. While the File is being
worked on the processing power and the RAM being "used up" is NOT coming
from the Server,...it is being expended on/by the workstation that the user
is working from,...and there is no bandwidth being used.

--
Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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Thanks -in this environment people transfer the files back and forth to the
server a lot.

"Phillip Windell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "boe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I work for a graphics company where they work on 10 GB files. They'd
>> like to leave the bandwidth open instead of limiting anyone but
>> occassionally they want to know who is using up the bandwidth - is there
>> an easy way to find this out?
>
> No there is not.
>
> Also you need to define "using bandwidth". When working on a "file" there
> is Zero bandwidth being used,...it makes no difference how big a file is.
> The actual bandwidth usage occurs only very briefly when the file is being
> loaded into RAM to work on it and then a second time when the File is
> being "saved" back out to the location it was read from. While the File
> is being worked on the processing power and the RAM being "used up" is NOT
> coming from the Server,...it is being expended on/by the workstation that
> the user is working from,...and there is no bandwidth being used.
>
> --
> Phillip Windell
> www.wandtv.com
>
> The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or
> Microsoft,
> or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>

You could always just look at who has files open. Not the best but it could
work.

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Andrew Davis
IT Administrator
WestGate Church

"boe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Thanks -in this environment people transfer the files back and forth to
> the server a lot.
>
> "Phillip Windell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> "boe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> I work for a graphics company where they work on 10 GB files. They'd
>>> like to leave the bandwidth open instead of limiting anyone but
>>> occassionally they want to know who is using up the bandwidth - is there
>>> an easy way to find this out?
>>
>> No there is not.
>>
>> Also you need to define "using bandwidth". When working on a "file"
>> there is Zero bandwidth being used,...it makes no difference how big a
>> file is. The actual bandwidth usage occurs only very briefly when the
>> file is being loaded into RAM to work on it and then a second time when
>> the File is being "saved" back out to the location it was read from.
>> While the File is being worked on the processing power and the RAM being
>> "used up" is NOT coming from the Server,...it is being expended on/by the
>> workstation that the user is working from,...and there is no bandwidth
>> being used.
>>
>> --
>> Phillip Windell
>> www.wandtv.com
>>
>> The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or
>> Microsoft,
>> or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
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