Bug ID 432080: Drop in ASM performance (transactions per second)

Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.1 HF1, 11.5.1 HF2, 11.5.1 HF3

Fixed In:
11.6.0, 11.5.1 HF4

Opened: Sep 27, 2013

Severity: 1-Blocking

Symptoms

In v11.5.0 and v11.5.1, BIG-IP was enhanced to improve management-plane responsiveness under heavy data-plane traffic loads. This caused a drop in performance for some Application Security Manager traffic workloads.

Impact

Performance degradation.

Conditions

Full traffic load.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

Data-plane (traffic) performance for Application Security Manager workloads is significantly improved.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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