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Hosts reporting high write latency on multiple luns

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • Non-AFF controllers more susceptible to this issue
  • FCP
  • FAS2650

Issue

  • A FlexVol or FlexGroup is experiencing increased / higher than expected write latency.
  • Volumes / Luns are spread across both the nodes.
  • Latency is reported as Data and Disk latency from qos statistics or AIQ
  • systat-x output shows evidence of CP type CP_Ty B (Back-to-Back) CPs
  • systat -m output shows CPU more than 90% around the time of the issue:

Note: Columns removed to improve readability

  • node01::*> node run -node node1 sysstat -m
    Warning: These diagnostic commands are for use by NetApp
             personnel only.
    ANY  AVG      CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 CPU5 CPU6 
    59%   94%    93%   94%   94%   94%   94%   94%      
    72%   94%    94%   95%   95%   95%   95%   95%     
    75%   95%    94%   95%   94%   95%   94%   95%     
    62%   94%    94%   94%   95%   95%   94%   94%     
    79%   95%    96%   96%   95%   97%   95%   96%     
    82%   95%    95%   95%   95%   96%   95%   96%      
    81%   95%    96%   96%   95%   97%   95%   97%     
    86%   95%    96%   96%   96%   99%   96%   97%     
    83%   96%    96%   96%   96%   97%   96%   97%   

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