It's nice to see professional journalists chasing the stories of fail http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/leap-second-bug-wreaks-havoc-with-java-linux/
Things that happened before the leap second a linux kernel bug was noted in March https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6b43ae8a619d17c4935c3320d2ef9e92bdeed05d reports indicate that not all vendors implemented this fix Redhat initially believed that RHEL6 was not affected, but newer ones were I'm not sure if the complaints about JVMs are disambiguated from kernels. https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/15145 But they later discovered that running NTP could cause a livelock before the leap second https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/solutions/154713 and their fix seems to be https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/15145 The reports about Debian squeeze started well before the leap second and are also related to the NTP leap flag http://serverfault.com/questions/403732/anyone-else-experiencing-high-rates-of-linux-server-crashes-during-a-leap-second Things that happened at the leap second java virtual machines and mysql seemed unhappy. It isn't clear whether it was one of those or the two together. They were fixed by setting the system date to the current date. http://blog.mozilla.org/it/2012/06/30/mysql-and-the-leap-second-high-cpu-and-the-fix/ There were also reports of problems with ruby, but I have not seen details of the kernel version, NTP config, or coexistence of mysql. linux system logs showed issues with futex https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/30/122 -- Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
