On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 21:52:21 +0000 Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote:
> Hello, > > Has anyone been seeing this sort of thing in the last 22-ish hours? > > http://serverfault.com/questions/403732/anyone-else-experiencing-high-rates-of-linux-server-crashes-today > > I've run adjtimex -p on all of my servers and they're all reporting > status 17, which as far as I can tell means they've already been sent > adjtimex()by ntpd and will add a leap second at midnight. > > As I understand the reports so far, the livelock would happen at the > point where ntpd sends the adjtime(), soif they haven't locked > already then they aren't going to. > I didn't find out about this until last night, when I shut down ntpd on the two Squeeze machines I look after. Obviously that was far too late, as both machines did the leap-second thing at midnight, and neither had been affected by the problem. I've since seen it described as the result of a race hazard, so it would seem to be a matter of chance whether a particular machine had a problem. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120701221815.27e94...@jretrading.com