jdalyasc_295749
Aug 31, 2018Nimbostratus
F5 LTM source address persistence is 5 hours too long?
We have an web application that we are currently using source address persistence on the virtual server. The application is set to keep connections active for 5 hours. This seems long to me but this how the application is configured. Currently the virtual server is using the standard source address persistence timeout of 180 seconds.
If I create a new source address persistence profile and set the timeout to 18000 seconds would this have any negative effect on the LTM. I know it would have to keep the persistence information for 5 hours but the site being load balanced does not have that much traffic maybe 50 users total.
Looking for suggestions, should the persistence timeout match the application timeout.