[181720] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Wed Jul 1 10:39:13 2015
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Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 09:39:09 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>
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Once upon a time, Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@gmail.com> said:
> Not quite. Reported crashes included 6.27, so it's possible that some other
> mitigating factor helped not to crash (like using SNTP instead of NTP,
> although there seems to be people with crashes using SNTP or no SNTP/NTP at
> all).
These are running Linux kernels, right? Anybody know which version? I
know the last couple of leap seconds hit (different) bugs in the Linux
kernel. The 2012 bug was timer related and confused some user-space
applications, but the 2008 bug could cause a kernel deadlock (which this
sounds like).
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Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>
