Last Modified: Sep 27, 2024
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM
Known Affected Versions:
15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4, 15.1.0.5, 15.1.1, 15.1.2, 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, 15.1.10, 15.1.10.2, 15.1.10.3, 15.1.10.4, 15.1.10.5, 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, 16.1.4.3, 16.1.5, 17.1.0, 17.1.0.1, 17.1.0.2, 17.1.0.3, 17.1.1, 17.1.1.1, 17.1.1.2, 17.1.1.3, 17.1.1.4
Opened: Jun 25, 2024 Severity: 3-Major
Certain virtio driver configurations may result in excessive memory usage, which in some cases, leads to issues with forwarding traffic. 'tmctl page_stats' output can be examined on a newly launched system to verify if any of the TMMs except for TMM0 have their memory exhausted.
Excessive memory usage, in some cases, leads to problems with traffic forwarding.
Virtio driver memory usage scales up with: - Number of queues. - Number of TMMs. - Number of interfaces. - Queue size. Increasing these numbers might cause a problem trigger.
Scale down on the number of queues and their size. Reduce the number of interfaces.
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