Bug ID 462163: Non Blade 0 might stop MPI transmitting on post congestion

Last Modified: Oct 16, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.6.2 HF1

Fixed In:
11.6.0, 11.5.1 HF6

Opened: May 13, 2014

Severity: 2-Critical

Related Article: K15962

Symptoms

Affected senders start queuing CMP messages. This eventually leads to CMP message drops with the potential for Out-of-Memory conditions.

Impact

CMP stops functioning correctly with shared resources like SessionDB, persistence, ramcache, flow forwarding, and others impacted.

Conditions

MPI congestion

Workaround

None short of restarting TMM on affected blades

Fix Information

Allow Non Blade 0 MPI communication even after congestion.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips