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ryan_126547
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Feb 28, 2013

ASM causing high CPU on bigip 3600 ltm

Hi all!   We are experiencing high CPU levels on both cores of our BigIP 3600 ltm platform after we applied the only security policy on our ASM to the http class profile on our VIPs. We are trying...
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Mar 01, 2013
Posted By Mike Maher on 03/01/2013 05:46 AM

 

 

Chris - Do you believe this is a restriction of the 3600 model or just a rule of thumb across hardware platforms?

 

The 3600 is the least powerful model approved to run LTM+ASM. I'd like to believe a more powerful model could handle it, but my experience has made me wary. Obviously F5 still thinks LTM+ ASM should be fine on a 3600. My cpu rarely goes above 10% running just LTM, so its not like my box is busy.

 

 

Chris