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epaul_27364
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Dec 12, 2007

ASM Performance Overhead

I've been trying to find something in the app notes, but been unsuccessful so far. Does anyone know what sort of performance overhead ASM adds? I assume it must take some measurable amount of time to do all that packet inspection.

 

 

Thanks!
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2 Replies

  • Colin_Walker_12's avatar
    Colin_Walker_12
    Historic F5 Account
    Dec 13, 2007
    As with any increase in inspection and processing, you're going to see a performance hit. It's impossible to say, exactly, how much of a performance difference you'll see though, as that will depend on many factors. How much traffic will you be passing? What type of traffic is it? How big is the average packet? How many VIPs/pools will you be running? Etc. etc.

     

     

    The only way to get a good feel for what kind of increase in utilization you'll see is to give it a try in test/dev.

     

     

    Colin
  • zafer's avatar
    zafer
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    Aug 26, 2008
    Colin,

     

     

    The customer has LTM 6800, hw compression card, max SSL license, Cache license and enable ASM module.

     

     

    LTM 6800 performance values; Max System throughput 4 Gbps and 20000 SSL TPS and 2Gbps compression and 2Gbps ASM throughput

     

     

    if i enable all feature sametime and if i receive high client traffic,

     

    how does change performance values,

     

     

    Regards

     

     

    zafer