What causes other ops? I understand that pretty much everything that hits the filer requires something but I am seeing what looks like a very high number of other ops when I do a stats show. Does this indicate a problem or is it just a busy box?  It’s a mixed mode volume. Just trying to figure out what’s causing it to work so hard.

 

 

Instance total_ops read_ops write_ops other_ops nfs_read_ops nfs_write_op nfs_other_op cifs_read_op cifs_write_o cifs_other_o

                /s       /s        /s        /s           /s           /s           /s           /s           /s           /s

  shares      1633      984       139       509            0            1           34          984          137          473

  shares      2085     1173       257       654            0            2           18         1173          255          634

  shares      2593     1483       253       856            0            2          221         1483          251          634

  shares      3268     2306       170       791            0            1          222         2305          168          569