Is anyone familiar with messages such as these, and how to diagnose what volume(s) on what aggregate is triggering it?

4/27/2018 11:24:31  node1         NOTICE        wafl.zombie.susp.msg.threshold: WAFL(R) is experiencing zombie throttling possibly due to requests for large number of file deletions. This can be mitigated by a combination of a) reducing the load on the system, b) issuing the file deletion requests in smaller batches and c) increasing the limits to allow more zombies to be queued on the system (Please contact technical support).

I'm troubleshooting a latency/performance issue and this caught my eye in the event logs.  Web searches aren't really coming up with anything useful and there is mention of it in the NetApp KB but no real background information or troubleshooting steps.

Also, the (R)egistered Trademark after WAFL in the notice is weird to have in a technical event log.



Ian Ehrenwald
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Hachette Book Group, Inc.
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