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High FlexGroup or FlexVol CIFS latency due to CIFS ChangeNotify fixed with share properties

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9.0-9.9
  • FlexGroup with CIFS workload
  • FlexVol with CIFS workload
  • NFS if in multiprotocol FlexGroup (Accessed through CIFS and NFS)
  • Change Notify

Issue

  • Elevated CIFS latency, typically for WRITE operations, but also Create, Setattr, Open, Close
  • Output of qos statistics volume latency show shows majority of latency in data column
  • Users hosted in VDI environment report slow access immediately post migrating from FlexVol to FlexGroup. 
  • Latency may be seen on a single constituent steady or shift between constituent volumes in rapid succession if multiple directories are read or written to

 

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