Metadata work, mostly - directory crawls, access checks, things like that (in CIFS). In NFS, ACCESS, READDIR, READDIR+ , stuff like that.
I think you can use 'cifs top -s ops' to see the busiest clients hitting the system. If the ones at the top have very high ops, but not many reads/writes, those could be your guys.
That said, it's all about latency. If it isn't driving latency higher, shouldn't be a concern. Those are different stats commands, though, can't remember right now......
--- On Fri, 6/5/09, Page, Jeremy <jeremy.page(a)gilbarco.com> wrote:
> From: Page, Jeremy <jeremy.page(a)gilbarco.com>
> Subject: Other OPS?
> To: toasters(a)mathworks.com
> Date: Friday, June 5, 2009, 3:10 PM
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