[181735] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Wed Jul 1 12:46:32 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 11:43:38 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20150701143909.GA21302@cmadams.net>
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v5 is 2.4, v6 3.3.5
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Mike Hammett
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Adams" <cma@cmadams.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 9:39:09 AM
Subject: Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
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>
