>The original source may be this: > > https://plus.google.com/117024231055768477646/posts/2pkWbDiEDQG
I have received several copies of the email Hetzner sent out to their customers, so the above was probably just for one (big!) customer: > During the night of 30.06.2012 to 01.07.2012 our internal > monitoring systems registered an increase in the level of > IT power usage by approximately one megawatt. > > The reason for this huge surge is the additional switched > leap second which can lead to permanent CPU load on Linux > servers. > > According to heise.de, various Linux distributions are > affected by this. Further information can be found at: > > http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Leap-second-Linux-can-freeze-1629805.html > > In order to reduce CPU load to a normal level again, a > restart of the whole system is necessary in many cases. > First, a soft reboot via the command line should be > attempted. Failing that, you have the option of performing > a hardware reset via the Robot administration interface. > For this, select menu item "Server" and the "Reset" tab > for the respective server in the administration interface. > > Please do not hesitate to contact us, should you have any > queries. > > Kind regards, > > Hetzner Online AG -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
