Bug ID 460197: BIG-IP Stratos 2200s and 4200v LTM xdata memory leak

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
10.2.1, 11.6.2 HF1, 11.2.1, 11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1

Fixed In:
11.6.0, 11.6.0, 11.5.1 HF5, 11.4.1 HF6, 11.2.1 HF15

Opened: May 01, 2014

Severity: 2-Critical

Related Article: K15955

Symptoms

This applies only to Stratos 2200s and 4200v platforms. Resetting connections with compressed content might not perform a complete clean-up.

Impact

The incomplete reset results in orphaned xfrags and active_requests growing without bound. New requests on the affected virtual server will stall.

Conditions

Manifests when there is a reset on the flow. The resets slowly accumulate xfrags and active_requests.

Workaround

none

Fix Information

active_requests is updated when a flow using hardware acceleration is reset.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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