Linux blamed for 'leap second' that humbled Internet - Page 1 - Enterprise Infrastructure

[Anthony Verevkin]

> Must be some specific circumstances to trigger it, even with mysql.
> 
> MySQL on my home box was unaffected. I manage a few corporate boxen
> running RHEL and mysql was fine on those too.

>From what I saw, in order to be affected your system must have been 
running ntpd in the daemon mode (not ntpdate and not ntpd as an occasional
cronjob). In that case ntpd would tell the kernel that tonight we are 
going to add an extra second and that's where the kernel gets screwed up.

Regards,
Anthony
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