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DFresh_4130_150
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Jun 07, 2017

Slow uploads through BIG-IP

We have a web app running behind an F5 BIG-IP running version 11.6.0. The app is responsible for storing large binary files so it regularly gets large uploads and downloads. During initial setup a ...
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John_Heyer_1508's avatar
John_Heyer_1508
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Jun 07, 2017

It may the that the proxy buffers and receive windows are actually too big. I'd recommend setting the proxy buffers back to 131072, but do increase the receive window to 256 or 512 KB. Send buffer of 1 MB is probably fine.

 

For the server profile, you can generally use tcp-lan-optimized, unless there is high latency, loss, or congestion expected between the BigIP and the backend servers.

 

Here's my blog post. I've been able to achieve 100 Mbps uploads and 250 Mbps downloads.