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

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 06:12:17PM -0700, DAVID CHIPMAN wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Has anybody pinpointed where the problem code is? What version of the software is/are affected?

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/30/122 seems to discuss the issue.

Even ksoftirqd kernel threads were effected (which might explain why I
saw those eating a ton of CPU as well on my machine).

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Len Sorensen
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