Bug ID 1624853: ETCD consumes a high amount of CPU time

Last Modified: Jun 19, 2025

Affected Product(s):
F5OS F5OS-C(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
F5OS-C 1.6.1, F5OS-C 1.6.2, F5OS-C 1.8.0

Fixed In:
F5OS-C 1.8.1

Opened: Aug 08, 2024

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

ETCD may consume a significant amount of CPU time after a controller failover, or when tenants are being deployed or removed.

Impact

This may slow down other F5OS control plane processes while ETCD is consuming a high amount of CPU.

Conditions

Conditions causing extended high CPU time are unknown at the moment.

Workaround

If the ETCD CPU usage is continually high, it is possible to restrict the CPU's that ETCD is allowed to run on. This can be done from the system controller shell, and needs to be done on both system controllers. This will need to re-done on system controller reboot or failover. for x in $(pgrep 'etcd$'); do taskset -cp 4-7 $x; done

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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