Bug ID 887017: The dwbld daemon consumes a large amount of memory

Last Modified: Nov 09, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
13.1.3, 13.1.3.1, 13.1.3.2, 13.1.3.3, 13.1.3.4, 13.1.3.5, 13.1.3.6, 13.1.4, 13.1.4.1, 13.1.5, 13.1.5.1, 14.0.0, 14.0.0.1, 14.0.0.2, 14.0.0.3, 14.0.0.4, 14.0.0.5, 14.0.1, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4, 14.1.2.5, 14.1.2.6, 14.1.2.7, 14.1.2.8, 14.1.3, 14.1.3.1, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4, 15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4, 15.1.0.5, 15.1.1, 15.1.2, 15.1.2.1

Fixed In:
16.0.0, 15.1.3, 14.1.4

Opened: Mar 03, 2020

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

The dwbld daemon shows very large memory consumption after adding addresses to the shun-list.

Impact

Excessive memory consumption. If memory is exhausted, enforcement does not occur.

Conditions

-- Adding a large number of IP addresses to the shun-list (millions of IP addresses). -- Viewing dwbl memory usage using: config # top -p $(pidof dwbld)

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

Improvements to dwbld memory handling have been implemented.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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