Bug ID 642562: TMM may crash with a very high number of concurrent TCP connections

Last Modified: Aug 19, 2026

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

Known Affected Versions:
13.0.0, 13.0.0 hf1, 13.0.0 hf2, 13.0.0 hf3, 13.0.1

Opened: Jan 31, 2017

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

TMM may crash with a very high number of concurrent connections (e.g., 30 million).

Impact

Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Conditions

This happens if BIG-IP has a lot of concurrent connections and encounters HSB ring drops. At that time if ICMP monitors are configured, then LTM will QoS promote those ICMP monitor flows and if those are for the same endpoints, then tmm might crash.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips