Bug ID 580686: Hostagentd might leak memory on vCMP hosts.

Last Modified: Oct 17, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1 HF1, 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

Fixed In:
11.6.1 HF1

Opened: Mar 15, 2016

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K70973444

Symptoms

hostagentd resident memory keeps leaking over time. Unexplained system instability. Health monitors might work intermittently.

Impact

hostagentd consumes more than 400 MB of resident memory. In some cases, the process consumes more than 1 GB. This might cause system instability and intensive usage of vCMP host swap memory.

Conditions

This occurs when host uptime is two months or longer.

Workaround

Restart hostagentd on vCMP host.

Fix Information

Many stability and other improvements have been made to hostagentd daemon and associated functionality, so that memory leaks on vCMP hosts no longer occur.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips