Bug ID 972869: Excessive memory usage by MPI proxy

Last Modified: Sep 24, 2024

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

Known Affected Versions:
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

Opened: Dec 10, 2020

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Sweeper message seen in /var/logs/ltm similia to the following err tmm[16572]: 011e0003:3: Aggressive mode sweeper: /Common/default-eviction-policy (10000000000001e) (global memory) 9 Connections killed In severe cases, TMM might restart and generate a core file due to an out-of-memory condition.

Impact

A portion of the connections handled by the BIG-IP might be dropped causing traffic interruption for those connections In some cases, TMM restart. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Conditions

HA system with a high number of connections and heavy load

Workaround

None

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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