Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP (all modules)
Known Affected Versions:
11.1.0, 11.2.0, 11.2.1, 11.3.0, 11.4.0
Fixed In:
11.5.0, 11.4.1, 11.4.0 HF3, 11.3.0 HF6
Opened: May 09, 2013 Severity: 3-Major Related Article:
K14423
The wamd process can core under heavy pdf linearization or image optimization load if disk or RAM resources abruptly become low.
wamd cores and restarts
If a disk or ram shortfall occurs abruptly and OWS is slow enough in responding, WAM may initially decide it has enough disk and ram to optimize but discover later it does not. This is mostly handled properly but there was one unlikely corner case which was not.
If the shortfall is disk, free more space in /shared. If the shortfall is RAM, increasing RAM may help slightly.
When RAM or disk space becomes low abruptly while under heavy image optimization or pdf linearization load, wamd will no longer core.