[gentoo-user] "Leap Second" 'bug'

[gentoo-user] "Leap Second" 'bug'

[Pandu Poluan]

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Just wondering... did Saturday's "Leap Second" bit your infrastructure?

Did you do something special (like Google did) to prevent chaos?

'Leap Second' Bug Wreaks Havoc Across Web | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
http://m.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/leap-second-bug-wreaks-havoc-with-java-linux/Sent
from Maxthon Mobile

Rgds,

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Re: [gentoo-user] "Leap Second" 'bug'

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> Just wondering... did Saturday's "Leap Second" bit your infrastructure?
>
> Did you do something special (like Google did) to prevent chaos?
>
> 'Leap Second' Bug Wreaks Havoc Across Web | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
> http://m.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/leap-second-bug-wreaks-havoc-with-java-linux/
> Sent from Maxthon Mobile

We only had one infrastructure VM go down. I know a guy who had to
spend the hours of 2AM to 7AM dealing with it.


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Re: [gentoo-user] "Leap Second" 'bug'

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> Just wondering... did Saturday's "Leap Second" bit your infrastructure?
>
> Did you do something special (like Google did) to prevent chaos?
>
> 'Leap Second' Bug Wreaks Havoc Across Web | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
> http://m.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/leap-second-bug-wreaks-havoc-with-java-linux/

non-mobile version of the link:
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/leap-second-bug-wreaks-havoc-with-java-linux/

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Re: [gentoo-user] "Leap Second" 'bug'

[Alan McKinnon]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:35:50 +0700
Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:

> Just wondering... did Saturday's "Leap Second" bit your
> infrastructure?

Nope, that a murmur, not a peep, barely even a log entry anywhere. And
no whinging customers (surprisingly!) Our ntp servers just synced with
the upstream stratum and carried on business as usual

I'd like to boast that my time servers are awesome and the team running
them even more awesome, but the truth is this one took us by surprise.
You fellows in the US and Europe might be amazed by this, but down here
in Africa the leap-second wasn't announced AT ALL. A few folk here and
there knew of it, that's all. Me? I had to find out from a Google news
feed on Sunday evening.....


 
> 
> Did you do something special (like Google did) to prevent chaos?
> 
> 'Leap Second' Bug Wreaks Havoc Across Web | Wired Enterprise |
> Wired.com
> http://m.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/leap-second-bug-wreaks-havoc-with-java-linux/Sent
> from Maxthon Mobile
> 
> Rgds,



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Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] "Leap Second" 'bug'

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:35:50 +0700
> Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
>
>> Just wondering... did Saturday's "Leap Second" bit your
>> infrastructure?
>
> Nope, that a murmur, not a peep, barely even a log entry anywhere. And
> no whinging customers (surprisingly!) Our ntp servers just synced with
> the upstream stratum and carried on business as usual
>
> I'd like to boast that my time servers are awesome and the team running
> them even more awesome, but the truth is this one took us by surprise.
> You fellows in the US and Europe might be amazed by this, but down here
> in Africa the leap-second wasn't announced AT ALL. A few folk here and
> there knew of it, that's all. Me? I had to find out from a Google news
> feed on Sunday evening.....

You should have been following me on Twitter. I went with a text-only
take on the "Brace yourselves" meme.

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Re: [gentoo-user] "Leap Second" 'bug'

[Frank Peters]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:32:45 -0400
Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Just wondering... did Saturday's "Leap Second" bit your
> infrastructure?
> 

Being just a user of Linux desktop applications the leap-second issue
has no relevance to my activities.

However, I have read in several places that any potential problem on Linux
systems had been traced to a bug that was fixed several kernel releases
ago.  Anyone who keeps up to date should have experienced nothing.

Frank Peters

Re: [gentoo-user] "Leap Second" 'bug'

[Alan McKinnon]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:32:45 -0400
Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Alan McKinnon
> <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:35:50 +0700
> > Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> >
> >> Just wondering... did Saturday's "Leap Second" bit your
> >> infrastructure?
> >
> > Nope, that a murmur, not a peep, barely even a log entry anywhere.
> > And no whinging customers (surprisingly!) Our ntp servers just
> > synced with the upstream stratum and carried on business as usual
> >
> > I'd like to boast that my time servers are awesome and the team
> > running them even more awesome, but the truth is this one took us
> > by surprise. You fellows in the US and Europe might be amazed by
> > this, but down here in Africa the leap-second wasn't announced AT
> > ALL. A few folk here and there knew of it, that's all. Me? I had to
> > find out from a Google news feed on Sunday evening.....
> 
> You should have been following me on Twitter. I went with a text-only
> take on the "Brace yourselves" meme.
> 

Sorry, no can do. I don't do twitter.

It's not personal, I just have this pro-verbosity thing going :-)



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Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com