High processor load on linux servers for unknown reason since 02:00?

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Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone else is also experiencing abnormally high processor load since 02:00 this morning?

It appears to be a leap second issue, which caused havoc on quite a few of our servers: http://serverfault.com/questions/403...-a-leap-second

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Nah, idling here on my desktop

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Nah, idling here on my desktop

Are you running Java services on a Linux machine, as well as the NTP service? Probably not

This is such a BS issue. Setting the date manually just magically fixed the processor load.

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Are you running Java services on a Linux machine, as well as the NTP service? Probably not

None of the above.

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At least the fix was rather simple:
date -s "`date +\"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S\"`"

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Now I realize that it was not only our Java based servers that were influenced, but also our MySQL servers!

Many people actually stopped and started their NTP daemon too in their fix:
service ntpd stop
date -s "`date`"
service ntpd start

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All my servers are fine. (All in NZ)