Bug ID 765809: Memory increases for the bd daemon on cluster environment primary blade

Last Modified: Nov 07, 2022

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

Known Affected Versions:
12.1.0, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2, 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

Fixed In:
12.1.5.1

Opened: Mar 27, 2019

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

BD memory increases. The increased memory is seen as a very large number in the last column of the bd.log files UMU prints.

Impact

Memory increase; swap usage.

Conditions

-- ASM provisioned on cluster environment. -- ASM policy attached to a virtual. -- Brute force protection configured.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

Freed a chunk of memory which was allocated upon a sync from secondary to primary blade.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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