Bug ID 2162509: Large number of glob-matches can cause high CPU usage.

Last Modified: Dec 09, 2025

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

Known Affected Versions:
17.1.1.4, 17.1.2, 17.1.2.1, 17.1.2.2, 17.1.3

Opened: Nov 26, 2025

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

High CPU usage which is correlated with spikes in the number of active connections.

Impact

Tmm may not be able to keep up with incoming traffic.

Conditions

* Large number url-db glob-matches that require tmm to use regular expressions (e.g. more than a thousand). * Typically glob matches that require regular expressions look like: "\*.example.com/" "\*www.example.com" Glob matches that don't require regular expressions (and are therefore unaffected by this bug) include: "\*://\*.example.com/" "\*://\*www.example.com"

Workaround

Often the glob-matches can be rewritten to use a more efficient form.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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