Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP All
Known Affected Versions:
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
Opened: Sep 24, 2018 Severity: 3-Major
tmm is sometimes killed by sod during snapshot creation when running on VMware ESXi.
Traffic processing can be severely impacted while the snapshot operation is proceeding regardless of whether tmm restarts or not. If tmm is restarted, production traffic will not be processed until it is finished restarting.
An attempt to snapshot a running BIG-IP guest is made. This can cause the instance to be descheduled by the host upon which it is running which prevents tmm from touching its watchdog. Upon being scheduled to run, if sod runs before tmm can update the watchdog, it will kill tmm. A message indicating that tmm did not run for an extended period of time may be logged such as: 01010029:5: Clock advanced by 40124 ticks This message indicates generally that tmm did not run and can indicate other types of issues as well.
There is no workaround at this time.
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