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Chris_Lira_5487
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Oct 16, 2008

idle timeout

In our BIGIP-LTM, the idle timeout is set to 300 seconds. When we run a transaction which takes about 10 minutes, we see a second transaction enter our web/app server after about 5 minutes (so we end...
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Cindy_14283
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Mar 29, 2011
Hi all,

 

 

Few days ago the LB in my network had memory leak. refer to f5 documentations,to decrease the consume system memory, i must setting the idle timeouts as small as possible. so i set the idle timeouts from 300 sec (default) to 60 sec. after i set to 60 sec, memory doesn't leak again. My question, is there any impact on the system by changing the idle timeouts (long term impact) ? for information, the CPU before and after changing the idle timeouts doesn't give big difference.

 

 

 

rgds,

 

cindy