Bug ID 422077: TMM memory grows, TCL Variable leaking

Last Modified: Oct 16, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.2.1, 11.3.0, 11.4.1

Fixed In:
11.4.1 HF9, 11.3.0 HF9

Opened: May 29, 2013

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

The memory keeps going high tmctl -a "memory_usage_stat" name allocated max_allocated held size tot_allocs cur_allocs tcl (variable) 1326234128 1326239328 1326234128 1 8986499096 17184678 umem_alloc_48 671065104 671067744 13981343 48 3234287967 13980523 umem_alloc_8192 434741248 434741248 54060 8192 183410902 53069

Impact

Experience TMM memory growth

Conditions

The cause can be this irule persist uie [HTTP::header "Authorization"] 7200 under the condition that if tcl_ctx.cf is serverside with NULL peer. Here the TCL Obj would leak

Workaround

none

Fix Information

Memory leak in the persist tcl variable is fixed.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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