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Leap Second

Created by dave. Last edited by dave, 11 years and 263 days ago. Viewed 2,911 times. #3
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Problem

My nasty java app is eating up all the CPU it can get. (Possibly sharing with something else equally unlikely that is eating the rest up -- in my case, milter-greylist.) This CPU consumption started at the moment of a leap second.

Discussion

There's a bug in either ntp or some versions of the kernel (>>http://lwn.net/Articles/504658/) that is causing some classes of applications to freak out.

Solution

service ntpd stop; date -s "`date`"; service ntpd start

Everything should be happy again.

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