Is 'bigpipe load' service interrupting?

It should be a transparent command. But it really depends on your config/hardware/software version.

 

 

Say you have a lot of vips/irules etc which takes the machine some time to load , then you could trip the failover monitors.

 

 

We have had issues where certain large F5 configs within specific datacenter takes a hit while others dont.

 

 

It also dpeends on what software revision you are running. We have seen it have greater impact on the 9.2.x and less on the 9.4.x series.

 

 

If you are running 9.3.1 -> http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/9000/000/sol9049.html?sr=9623477