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F5 | 1153865
Restjavad OutOfMemoryError errors and restarts after upgrade
Last update date:
4/26/2024
Affected products:
BIG-IP
BIG-IP Install/Upgrade
BIG-IP TMOS
Affected releases:
17.0.0.2
17.0.0.1
16.1.3.5
16.1.3.4
16.1.3.3
16.1.3.2
16.1.3.1
15.1.8.2
15.1.8.1
15.1.8
15.1.7
14.1.5.4
Fixed releases:
17.1.0
16.1.4
15.1.9
Description:
After upgrade to an affected version, restjavad restarts intermittently or frequently, and/or may use high CPU. ... The restjavad logs, /var/log/restjavad.X.log, may report the following errors: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space restjavad may instead, or as well, run many full garbage collection cycles one after another, causing high CPU. ... May have problems in the GUI with certain pages or tabs, such as network map with very large config or SSL Orchestrator or iLX related tabs. ... Other services that use REST API, internal and external to BIG-IP, may be impacted with low performance or service instability ... Workaround ... Before upgrade to an affected version - if you set sys db restjavad.useextramb to value false before install of new version you will have more restjavad memory, the default 384MB, after upgrade. ... tmsh modify sys db restjavad.useextramb value false If you restart restjavad you can see if that value works before upgrade. ... If you don't restart th...
