Bug ID 634175: datasyncd obfuscation can cause up to performance degradation

Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.0.1, 13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 13.1.1.2, 13.1.1.3, 13.1.1.4, 13.1.1.5, 13.1.3, 13.1.3.1, 13.1.3.2, 13.1.3.3, 13.1.3.4, 13.1.3.5, 13.1.3.6, 13.1.4, 13.1.4.1, 13.1.5, 13.1.5.1

Fixed In:
14.0.0

Opened: Dec 18, 2016

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

High bursts of CPU usage every day even with no ASM traffic.

Impact

This causes bursts of unusually high CPU utilization and potentially degraded overall system performance.

Conditions

This occurs when datasyncd's obfuscation activity is configured.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

Fixed a performance issue with the datasyncd obfuscation algorithm.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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