Bug ID 472365: The vCMP worker-lite system occasionally stops due to timeouts

Last Modified: Jul 18, 2026

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 11.5.2, 11.5.2 hf1, 11.5.3, 11.5.3 hf1, 11.5.3 hf2, 11.5.4, 11.5.4 hf1, 11.5.4 hf2, 11.5.4 hf3, 11.5.4 hf4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, 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

Opened: Jul 18, 2014

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K16632

Symptoms

The VCMP host side of the worker-lite system has a shorter timeout that the VCMP guest side. This can cause a worker-lite VCMP host to silently stop processing worker-lite requests for a VCMP guest.

Impact

SSL and compression traffic does not pass through VCMP guests running on an affected VCMP host. The system posts error messages in /var/log/ltm, similar to the following: Device error: crypto codec 'device-name' queue is stuck.

Conditions

This issue affects worker-lite based VCMP hosts running any version of VCMP guests that are processing SSL and compression traffic.

Workaround

To resume processing of SSL and compression traffic in a VCMP guest, restart the guest tmm by issuing a 'bigstart restart tmm' from within the guest. Restarting a VCMP guest by setting its state from 'deployed' to 'provisioned' and then back to 'deployed' also resumes processing of SSL and compression traffic.

Fix Information

Corrected a VCMP timeout issue that might have prevented a VCMP guests from processing SSL and compression traffic.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips