Trident Pod Consumes 100% Physical CPU on OpenShift Node
Applies to
- NetApp Trident CSI Driver
- OpenShift 4.x (specifically 4.19)
- ONTAP SAN/NAS backends (ONTAP 9.14.1P1 and lower)
- AFF-C250 and similar ONTAP systems
Issue
A Trident node pod (trident-node-linux-<pod>) in an OpenShift cluster consumes 100% of the physical CPU on its node, causing:
- Cluster-wide performance degradation
- Application disruption (VMs on the node became unresponsive)
- Increased latency in provisioning/deletion workflows
