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F5 | 1327961
EAM plugin crashes
Last update date:
4/26/2024
Affected products:
BIG-IP
BIG-IP APM
Affected releases:
16.1.3
16.1.3.1
16.1.3.2
16.1.3.3
16.1.3.4
16.1.3.5
16.1.4
16.1.4.1
16.1.4.2
16.1.4.3
17.1.0
17.1.0.1
Fixed releases:
No fixed releases provided.
Description:
Symptoms ... EAM process was restarting and kept coring. ... Suspecting this as key collision. ... The key is generated using ftok and isn't guaranteed to avoid collisions on a large box with 18 TMMs, which creates the opportunity for collisions (more shared memory in use). ... Impact ... Impacts functionality. ... Errors come across when EAM plugin intialisation eam: shmget name:/var/run/tmm.mp.eam16, key:0xff14561e, size:7, total:789184 : Invalid argument ... Workaround ... Fixed the problem by restarting the BIG-IP The fact that a reboot clears the condition also supports this - the underlying inode being used to generate key is changed due to the a new version of the key file being created. ... Fix Information ... None
