Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP (all modules)
Known Affected Versions:
11.4.1, 11.5.1, 11.5.1 HF1, 11.5.1 HF2, 11.5.1 HF3, 11.5.1 HF4, 11.5.1 HF5, 11.5.1 HF6, 11.5.1 HF7, 11.5.1 HF8, 11.5.1 HF9, 11.5.1 HF10, 11.5.1 HF11, 11.6.0, 11.6.0 HF1, 11.6.0 HF2, 11.6.0 HF3, 11.6.0 HF4, 11.6.0 HF5, 11.6.0 HF6, 11.6.0 HF7, 11.6.0 HF8, 11.6.1, 11.6.1 HF1, 11.6.1 HF2, 11.6.2, 11.6.2 HF1, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 11.6.3.3, 11.6.3.4, 11.6.4, 11.6.5, 11.6.5.1, 11.6.5.2, 11.6.5.3
Fixed In:
12.0.0, 11.5.2, 11.4.1 HF10
Opened: Nov 05, 2013 Severity: 3-Major
This is a requested enhancement. Some TMOS users prefer to completely disable hardware accelerated compression. This feature provides a "softwareonly" provider selection algorithm that will force all compression requests to be done by TMOS, and will not attempt to send compression requests to accelerator hardware.
When enabled, all compression requests will be performed by TMOS. This consumes CPU resource, and may reduce overall system performance.
The new setting is available when the "compression.provider" db variable is set to "softwareonly".
This is a requested enhancement controlled by setting the "compression.provider" db variable to "softwareonly". To disable the new feature, change "compression.provider" to another provider selection algorithm.
Enhancement: Provide user with a mechanism to completely disable hardware accelerated compression.