Bug ID 718602: Old config snapshots do not time out on standby

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.0, 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, 12.1.3.4, 12.1.3.5, 12.1.3.6, 12.1.3.7, 12.1.4, 12.1.4.1, 12.1.5, 12.1.5.1, 12.1.5.2, 12.1.5.3, 12.1.6, 13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.0.1, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4

Opened: May 05, 2018

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

SessionDB does not time out config snapshots on standby devices. Therefore, those config snapshots stay around until failover. TMM memory exhaustion can happen if access profiles get updated frequently, and there is no failover in the interim. tmm crash

Impact

TMM memory exhaustion and potential crash. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Conditions

-- High availability (HA) configuration. -- Old snapshots available on the system. -- Update access profiles frequently.

Workaround

You can use either of the following: -- Upgrade to v13.1.0 or later. Config snapshots are no longer created on the standby BIG-IP systems in these versions. -- Force failover every few days (or as needed). When a standby device becomes active, SessionDB's timeout mechanism is activated, and the old config snapshots will be removed in 1 hour.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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