High Node and CPU Utilization Due to WAFL Scan
Applies to
ONTAP 9
Issue
- High Node and CPU Utilization is seen due to wafl scan
- The below command and the utilization graph in graphana shows the below symptoms wiht wafl_scan taking up more CPU even when user workload is less from the client end
::> qos statistics workload resource cpu show -node node1 Workload ID CPU Wafl_exempt Kahuna Network Raid Exempt Protocol --------------- ----- ----- ----------- ------ ------- ----- ------ -------- -total- (1600%) - 405% 187% 0% 89% 2% 116% 0% _WAFL 7 132% 92% 0% 0% 0% 40% 0% System-Default 1 102% 6% 0% 53% 1% 41% 0% _WAFL_SCAN 20 79% 49% 0% 0% 0% 30% 0%