The Java Leap Second Bug
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Spent the night and the whole sunny sunday figuring out why all your production servers have gonne crazy … and test … and stage servers? Your Java processes experienced a very high CPU load without any reason?
This was caused by the Java leap second bug.
If you have ... Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC in your dmesg, do the following
{% highlight none %} /etc/init.d/ntp stop date ‘date + “%m%d%H%M%C%y.%S”’ {% endhighlight %}
That should do it, if not, read the rest from the original post.
Here is more on the topic.
Will have breakfast now and brush my teeth while watching the evening news :-D
Done for today!