gkrellm2 monitoring remote server?

Okay, so I've got gkrellm installed, and I use it to monitor my own home system. So, I saw that you could run multiple instances of it, so I installed the server daemon for it on my server in Iowa, and launched another instance of gkrellm2, this time pointed to the server to monitor the server.

WOW...my Ethernet PEGGED out on that! I'm talking close to 100% throughput on the eth0 monitor. Any ideas why that would happen?

Thanks in advance!

*EDIT* I should note that I turned the LED refresh rate on gkrellm2 down to the lowest it would go, and still eth0 was pegged out.