High FlexGroup or FlexVol latency due to CIFS ChangeNotify before ONTAP 9.10
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 showshows majority of latency indatacolumn - 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
