Hosts reporting high write latency on multiple luns
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
DataandDisklatency from qos statistics or AIQ systat-xoutput shows evidence of CP type CP_Ty B (Back-to-Back) CPssystat -moutput 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%
