Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

[Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>]

v5 is 2.4, v6 3.3.5 




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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>