Re: leap second and Centos

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 2:26 PM,  <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
>> Every other sysadmin in the world got calls in the middle of the night
>> to fix their servers.
>
> Ah, the system was fine, it was java that failed. And we've got a few
> tomcat apps... but IIRC, we fixed them the next day - we're "tier 3", and
> so "not critical", and could do that.

No, it was _not_ java that failed.  The kernel was spinning instead of
scheduling threads.  Any threaded application would have triggered the
kernel bug - or a usleep() call from a non-threaded application.   By
the time I got the call I was able to google the fix about resetting
the date, but the guys who manage some SuSE systems started earlier
and ended up rebooting some of them - and they don't run java
applications.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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