Bug ID 480370: Connections to virtual servers with port-preserve property will cause connections to leak in TMM

Last Modified: Oct 16, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
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 HF1, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.5.4 HF1, 11.5.4 HF2, 11.5.4 HF3, 11.5.4 HF4, 11.4.0, 11.4.1, 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 11.6.2, 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, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2

Fixed In:
12.0.0, 11.6.0 HF5, 11.5.3, 11.4.1 HF9

Opened: Sep 22, 2014

Severity: 2-Critical

Related Article: K17147

Symptoms

Connections leak, exhausting the memory over time and causing TMM to re-start.

Impact

TMM process re-starts causing traffic disruption. Low performance is also seen due to the high number of leaked connections.

Conditions

Virtual server with port-preserve setting. Tunneled APM connections in a CMP environment (many TMM processes).

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

The internal listeners that are created to forward the connections between TMM processes are now deleted when no longer needed, so new connections are not created, which prevents a memory leak.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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