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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
Hamish's avatar
Hamish
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Mar 07, 2014

TMM will use as much CPU as it requires...

 

Whether that leaves enough CPU to schedule for the HA daemons to run or not... Well...

 

** FWIW I have seen a loaded BigIP failover when you search the logs from the GUI... But that was a 6400 running 9.something, & I'm not sure I've managed to starve current versions of enough CPU. (But then I don't work at that client any more and current clients don't utilise that much resource on their units...

 

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