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Noyan_137135
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Mar 07, 2014

High CPU Guard

Hi all, I have a question about CPU mechanism of F5 devices. Is there any guard system or something for preventing very high usages of CPU caused by typically high connection requests? For example if...
application delivery
availability
LTM
management
TMOS
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Noyan_137135
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Mar 07, 2014

So as you mention it seems the CPU behaviour will remain the same when receiving more connections than the average, and CPU usage percentage will run into 90-95% until the received connection amount gets back to normal. Right?