Bug ID 522268: hostagentd memory leak on VCMP hosts

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 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, 12.0.0, 11.6.1 HF2

Opened: May 08, 2015

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

hostagentd may leak memory on BIG-IPs with VCMP provisioned.

Impact

hostagentd will grow to consume all available host memory, which may eventually affect other services and overall system performance.

Conditions

VCMP provisioned with VCMP guests deployed.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

This release resolves the memory leak that occurred when publishing VCMP host statistics to guests.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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