Bug ID 457934: SSL Persistence Profile Causing High CPU Usage

Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.2.1, 11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1, 11.5.0, 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

Fixed In:
12.0.0, 11.6.0 HF5, 11.5.2, 11.4.1 HF6, 11.2.1 HF15

Opened: Apr 18, 2014

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K16178

Symptoms

Some connections through a virtual server using SSL persistence hang and cause a high CPU condition in tmm.

Impact

Large increase in CPU usage on the box and a percentage of SSL connections through the virtual server are delayed and eventually reset

Conditions

This occurs only when SSL persistence is configured as the default persistence profile, and there is a fallback profile of either source_addr or dest_addr.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

SSL Persistence Profile now operates correctly, and does not cause high CPU usage.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips