Bug ID 2456769: Gradual increase in TMM memory usage

Last Modified: Oct 16, 2026

Affected Product(s):
BIG_IP_NEXT(BNK) BNK(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3

Fixed In:
2.4.0, 2.3.4, 2.2.5

Opened: Aug 13, 2026

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

TMM memory usage shows gradual increases and does not go down when traffic stops. Memory usage for ACL allocation type shows the growth.

Impact

Traffic disruption after TMM memory reaches threshold level.

Conditions

CNF Deployment with Firewall policy containing "Drop" action rules.

Workaround

Disable hardware offloading of Firewall rules in Global Option CR.

Fix Information

Do not initiate Hardware offload for non DPU deployments.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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