Last Modified: Jul 13, 2024
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP GTM
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, 11.5.2, 11.5.2 HF1, 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, 11.5.3, 11.4.1 HF9
Opened: Nov 18, 2014 Severity: 4-Minor Related Article:
K54162409
The big3d process may leak memory. As a result of this issue, you may encounter one or more of the following symptoms: You notice a progressive increase in the amount of memory that the big3d process uses. The big3d process produces a core file in the /shared/core directory. The BIG-IP system unexpectedly fails over to another system in the device group. The monitoring system marks the monitored device as unavailable.
Memory usage for the big3d process increases, and may eventually affect other services and overall system performance.
This issue occurs when all of the following conditions are met: Your system is actively monitored by a BIG-IP GTM or Enterprise Manager system. The monitoring system is configured with discovery enabled. The big3d process returns error messages to monitor requests.
None.
big3d no longer leaks memory during auto-discovery failure events.