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Unexpected TMOS utalsiation hit
I have a bigip 6400 platform running LTM v 9.4.7
We have an iRule to direct HTTP requests coming into the F5 from the datacentre out to the appropriate external service (For XML...
It could be something going wrong at the pool / SSL level - thats the sort of area i'd expect, the iRule timings seem to indicate things aren't being held up there. I could try giving it a curling at the catch level and seeing if i can reproduce. That would at least push it down to pool selection or ssl profile.
I know its a grey area, I'm trying to get the support ticket raised on the basis of the iRule timing functionality being way off here, which would seem to be an intergral part of the device rather than something we've slapped on the side. TMOS maxed at potentially 60 transactions per second is pretty hideous when the device is rated for 15k SSL TPS and 2Gbit throughput. The timing profiles are of course an estimate tool, but somethings not right here!
Wish we had a dedicated test lab, but the F5's are too expensive for us to have for odd occations such as this.
