Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP MA-VE
Known Affected Versions:
12.0.0, 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:
12.1.0, 12.0.0 HF1
Opened: Jan 26, 2015 Severity: 2-Critical
TMM may core when under memory pressure on Virtual Edition (VE) instances running in AWS and Azure
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Big-IP VE version 12.0 running in AWS and Azure environments. 12.0 VE images in AWS and Azure have been modified to use the 'sockets' data plane interface. The core may be observed when the sweeper is in aggressive mode, indicating that TMM is under memory pressure.
to switch from the 'sockets' dataplane interface to the 'unic' dataplane interface uncomment the 'modprobe unic' line in /etc/sysconfig/modules/unic.modules. The following command enables the VE 'unic' TMM dataplane interface. You must reboot to make this change take effect. ~$ sed -i 's/^#modprobe unic/modprobe unic/' /etc/sysconfig/modules/unic.modules ~$ reboot
This release properly handles memory allocation failures on Virtual Edition (VE) instances running in AWS and Azure, so no TMM cores occur.