Bug ID 525595: Memory leak of inbound sockets in restjavad.

Last Modified: Nov 07, 2022

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Affected Product:  See more info
BIG-IP LTM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
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, 11.5.10, 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:
11.6.0 HF6, 11.5.3 HF2

Opened: May 28, 2015
Severity: 1-Blocking
Related Article:
K38134424

Symptoms

restjavad might run out of memory due to inactive sockets piling up in memory. The symptom will be 'Out of memory' messages in the /var/logrestjavad.0.log and any new rest calls will fail. The URL that fails is random.

Impact

Memory leak of inbound sockets in restjavad. restjavad becomes inoperative.

Conditions

Occurs after a few hours of use.

Workaround

Restart restjavad with the following command: bigstart restart restjavad. Note: You can run the command periodically from a cron script.

Fix Information

Inbound sockets in restjavad no longer causes a memory leak.

Behavior Change