On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 21:43 UTC, Dave Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > Linux kernels 2.6.26 and later are reported at risk of livelock the > day preceding the leap insertion. I haven't found the first version > number with the fix.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4183122 indicates 3.4 is the first corrected version, and links to the change that introduced the bug in 2008, its fix in mid-March, and the integration of that fix into the mainstream Linux kernel at the end of March. > This is distinct from the earlier bug logging > the actual insertion event. > > http://serverfault.com/questions/403732/anyone-else-experiencing-high-rates-of-linux-server-crashes-today > > and mentioned there: > > http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1203.1/04598.html > > The Red Hat knowledge base article wasn't updated a moment ago when I checked. Separately there are reports of servers running Java spinning consuming CPU starting at the leap insertion. Stepping the clock marginally (by reading then setting the clock to the reading) is reported to fix it, even without restarting Java or ntpd. Cheers, Dave Hart _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
