Last Modified: Oct 17, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP MA-VE
Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 11.6.3.3, 11.6.3.4, 11.6.4, 11.6.5, 11.6.5.1, 11.6.5.2, 11.6.5.3, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2, 12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 12.1.3, 12.1.3.1, 12.1.3.2, 12.1.3.3
Fixed In:
13.1.0, 12.1.3.4
Opened: Nov 09, 2015 Severity: 3-Major Related Article:
K33044393
BIG-IP Virtual Edition becomes completely unresponsive under very heavy load.
Traffic through the guest stops until the guest/BIG-IP system is reset. However, this issue is reproduced during a test that over provision a 2-vCPU guest and is unlikely to happen in normal operation.
Sustained high packet rate with a very small payload.
Try ones of the following workarounds (first on is the most preferred and so ): 1. Increase guest memory. 2. Significantly reduce the value of the content in '/sys/module/unic/rx_queue_size'. For example running the following command substantially decreases throughput: echo 1048576 > /sys/module/unic/rx_queue_size. 3. Set panic on OOM. Try this as the last option. sysctl vm.panic_on_oom=1
BIG-IP Virtual Edition becomes unresponsive under extreme load test due to kernel memory exhaustion from over-provisioning.