Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP FPS
Known Affected Versions:
12.1.3, 12.1.2, 12.1.1, 12.1.0, 12.0.0
Opened: Aug 27, 2017 Severity: 3-Major
Depending on TCP profile parameters, FPS may introduce latency even for unprotected pages due to re-chunking of response. The latency introduction may arise when re-chunking causes a small TCP segment that the BIG-IP system's TCP stack or upstream device chooses to buffer (for example, due to Nagle's algorithm)
FPS unprotected pages may suffer 10's to 100's ms latency
1. FPS attached to virtual server. 2. TCP profile parameters (Nagle's Algorithm, MSS, etc.). 3. Chunked response from server.
Experience shows that disabling Nagle's Algorithm (for example) might overcome FPS latency, but it should be noted that this sort of mitigation should be carefully examined as it is influenced by many parameters (traffic patterns, other TCP profile parameters, SSL profile, etc.).
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