Last Modified: Feb 13, 2019
Affected Product:
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BIG-IP LTM
Known Affected Versions:
11.4.1, 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.1 HF1, 11.5.1 HF10, 11.5.1 HF11, 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, 11.5.2, 11.5.2 HF1, 11.5.3, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.6.0, 11.6.0 HF1, 11.6.0 HF2, 11.6.0 HF3, 11.6.0 HF4, 11.6.0 HF5
Fixed In:
12.0.0, 11.6.0 HF6, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.4.1 HF9
Opened: Jan 17, 2015
Severity: 3-Major
Related AskF5 Article:
K16656
When using a very large number of monitors, bigd may run out of file descriptors when it is restarted.
bigd cores and gets into a restart loop; monitors no longer work properly. The ltm log might contain error messages similar to the following: socket error: Too many open files.
A system with a large number of monitors configured.
Reduce the number of monitors on the system.
bigd no longer runs out of file descriptors during restart when using a very large number of monitors.