Information Technology Services

MESA M: Drive Slowness (3/19/2021)

Outage category:

Location: All M: drive users

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Slow MESA M: drive response

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

Several share administrators started to make large numbers of changes in share memberships, which stressed out a caching service and led to slow performance for M: drive.

Resolution

The caching service was restarted. Our engineer started to reach out to share administrators present on the system to coordinate change execution time.

Prevention

Before this event, we have already put in a monitor, tuning logging and caching levels to reduce system load.