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dragonflymr
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Dec 08, 2015

iRule killing BIG-IP

Hi,   I have huge issue with iRule obviously killing BIG-IP 2000. In tests iRule logic works OK, but under load BIG-IP is overloaded.   Scenario:   BIG-IP no iRule, 30 to 40k concurrent con...
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VernonWells
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Dec 09, 2015

AES::key
is the culprit. The process of generating an AES key is computationally non-trivial. If you are doing it twice per cookie times 5000 times per connection, your performance is going to be quite poor.