Bug ID 1250077: TMM memory leak

Last Modified: Oct 09, 2024

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP DNS, GTM, LTM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
15.1.2.1, 15.1.3, 15.1.3.1, 15.1.4, 15.1.4.1, 15.1.5, 15.1.5.1, 15.1.6, 15.1.6.1, 15.1.7, 15.1.8, 15.1.8.1, 15.1.8.2, 15.1.9, 15.1.9.1

Fixed In:
17.1.1, 15.1.10

Opened: Feb 22, 2023

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

TMM leaks memory for Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) requests.

Impact

TMM memory utilization increases over time and could crash due to Out of Memory (OOM) issue.

Conditions

DNSSEC signing process is unable keep pace with the incoming DNSSEC requests.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

A new DB variable dnssec.signwaitqueuecap is introduced to configure the limit for the software based crypto operations for DNSSEC. You can throttle the incoming DNSSEC requests based on the count of outstanding DNSSEC requests on crypto software queue. tmsh modify sys db dnssec.signwaitqueuecap value <value> this value sets the capacity per TMM process.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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