Last Modified: Dec 20, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM
Known Affected Versions:
16.1.0, 16.1.1, 16.1.2, 16.1.2.1, 16.1.2.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5, 16.1.4, 16.1.4.1, 16.1.4.2
Opened: Oct 26, 2021 Severity: 3-Major
Occasionally the Nitrox5 zip engine hangs. In /var/log/ltm: crit tmm12[24794]: 01010025:2: Device error: n5-compress1 Nitrox 3, Hang Detected: compression device was reset (pci 09:01.5, discarded 1).
The Nitrox5 hardware compression system becomes unavailable and the compression mode switches to software compression. This can lead to high CPU usage.
BIG-IP appliance that uses the Nitrox 5 hardware compression chip: i11800. You can check if your platform has the nitrox5 by running the following command: tmctl -w 200 compress -s provider provider -------- bzip2 lzo nitrox5 <---- qat-com zlib
Disable http compression
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