On 01/16/2015 07:05 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:43 AM, G Galitz geoff@galitz.org wrote:
We have another leap second coming. Have past bugs with Centos and leap seconds (specifically high CPU spikes) been resolved? Should we be worried?
Apparently Red Hat is well aware of the upcoming leap second:
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1317263
Unfortunately all the related bugzilla reports are private so we cannot see the status.
The bugzilla reports are no longer private (thanks to whoever made them public).
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181933 (EL5) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1180536 (EL6) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181970 (EL7)
Fascinating - describes what's happening but no mention of how we can rest assured that all will be well.... As I ponder it, I recognise that most of our systems are constantly calculating date/time values based upon the epoch - the number of seconds since a particular date/time, all these calculations need to be cognisant of these leap seconds, so its not just the ntp daemon, although that will be most immediately impacted, the effects of this need to be enshrined in code algorithms forever (well a very long time).
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