Re: [CentOS] leap second

On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 18:11:25 +0200 Peter Eckel wrote:

I did not have any problems on CentOS 5.8, but on one CentOS 6.2 box running a Java application.

I had problems with Firefox on four computers running fully updated Centos 6. Firefox was suddenly taking up a lot of CPU power showing nothing but a blank webpage, on all four computers. Closing and re-opening Firefox didn't fix it, logging out and back in didn't fix it, but rebooting the machines did.

Some google searching indicates to me that there was a problem with Firefox using a futex that got confused by the leap second, and getting into a loop.