F5 BIG-IP LTM Specialist: Maintain and Troubleshoot (301b) Exam Materials-Question 36 Discussion
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Refer to the output shown: [root@AFM01:Active] 20 days, 22:35, load average: 1.73, 1.24, 0.98 Tasks: 425 total, 1 running, 424 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 25.4%us, 3.1%sy, 64.9%id, 0.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st Mem: 16332552k total, 8638044k used, 151208k free, 11505776k buffers Swap: 1048504k total, 0k used, 1048504k free, 3404136k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1803 root 20 0 3113m 832m 525m S 3.0 5.3 06:26.10 iapd_child 19970 root 20 0 795m 432m 413m S 2.7 2.7 1746:37 tmm 19971 root 20 0 795m 432m 413m S 2.7 2.7 1129:12 tmm 8043 root 20 0 317m 251m 203m S 1.3 1.4 438:29 merged 9093 root 20 0 478m 212m 12m S 0.7 1.3 1568:32 chmand 9743 root 20 0 267m 173m 17m S 0.5 1.1 1645:54 tmsh 16800 root 20 0 149m 1.4g 1.4g S 0.5 9.5 5477:08 datastor 1532 root 20 0 68m 48m 12m S 0.3 0.3 498:05 mwd.pl 8552 root 20 0 41504 18m 6m S 0.2 0.1 0:03 httpd 16617 apache 20 0 89696 13m 9m S 0.1 0.1 77:07 ksoftirqd/0 21 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 231:02 ksoftirqd/1 ... 8768 root 20 0 196m 14m 7m S 0.3 0.1 16:20 smbd 11834 root 20 0 512m 372m 896m S 0.3 0.0 42:03 syslog-ng What is most likely the cause of the slow GUI response? (Choose one answer)

  • A. slcmd has crashed and spawned a child process
  • B. Excessive REST calls are being made against the iicrd process
  • C. Excessive REST calls are being made against the icrd process
  • D. There are too many HTTP connections being made to the configuration utility
Correct Answer: B

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C 100%

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Giovanni Altitoro 2026-09-13 22:31:17

Selected Answers: C


icrd = iControl REST Daemon, because it sits entirely in the control plane, icrd performance issue can cause the f5 Configuration Utility (GUI) or automation pipeline to freeze