Well, the asup is a list of commands that generate a lot of file responses that are then later sent off to the asup tool NetApp uses. It could be that it puts stress on vol0 (or root vol) and that is generating the load. (unless you can verify that DFM is erroneous)

Rich

From: Halton, Robert [mailto:rhalton@tpg.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 10:30 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: 2050 with high CPU Usage during weekly asup

Has anyone else seen this?

A 2050 Cluster when it sends the weekly ASUP will max out CPU, or at least DFM tells me so..

*** Event details follow.***

General Information

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DataFabric Manager Serial Number: 1-50-008777 Alarm Identifier: 4

Event Fields

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Event Identifier: 2327284

Event Name: CPU Too Busy

Event Description: CPU utilization on an appliance Event Severity: Warning Event Timestamp: 16 Aug 03:21

Source of Event

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Source Identifier: 4111

Source Name: RCNETAPP2 Type: Active/Active Controller Source Status: Warning

Event Arguments

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cpuTooBusyThreshold: 95

cpuUtilization: 97.6871

--NetApp DataFabric Manager

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