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D__Charles_Shid
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Jul 19, 2010

iRules, CPU, and breaking the world

Hi all!     I can't believe I'm about to ask this question; I've been looking most of today and wouldn't you know it, pretty much every single bit of iRule design and engineering, from the rules...
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hoolio
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Jul 19, 2010
I think TMM will get restarted after it gets too busy to answer heartbeats. How long are you trying to keep CPU1 (or the TMM CPU(s)) highly utilized? A simple way to trigger a TMM restart would be to increment a counter forever: 


when CLIENT_ACCEPTED {

   set i 0
   while {1} {
      incr i
   }
}

Aaron