On 25 Feb 2013 15:40, "Christian Hesse" <list@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > based on the thread "[RFC] Migration to MariaDB" in arch-dev-public by > Bartłomiej Piotrowski I started playing with MySQL and MariaDB. I noticed > both were polling every second: > > <... futex resumed> ) = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out) > futex(0x1d48050, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0 > gettimeofday({1361806174, 246573}, NULL) = 0 > futex(0x1d4808c, FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET_PRIVATE|FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME, > 2849, {1361806175, 246573000}, ffffffff <unfinished ...> > > Searching Google I found that the problem may be caused by the leap second, > though the load is not as high as some articles describe. (Continues polling > vs. one poll a second.) Hello I had the same problem with an EC2 instance which cost me some pounds.. And yeah from what I searched as well it probably relevant to the leap second problem. > > However the polling stops as soon as I manually set the time with date -s and > it start again if I run ntpdate to sync the time. As this is a notebook I > rebooted more than once since the leap second happened. ;) Mine was fixed when I did the date -s. (And I have done reboot after it.) Have you tried changing servers for the ntpd? I think there was a bug report in fedora about it, maybe worth looking for it and check comments. Also do you update the hwclock? > > What is going on? This is a mobile system, so it would be great to get rid of > mysqld eating my battery power. > -- > main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" > "CX:;",b;for(a/* Chris get my mail address: */=0;b=c[a++];) > putchar(b-1/(/* gcc -o sig sig.c && ./sig */b/42*2-3)*42);}