The leap second bug [LWN.net]

The leap second bug

Posted Jul 2, 2012 20:42 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
Parent article: The leap second bug

What? When? Why? Whatever?

I think that my two home systems could have been affected: my desktop (i3, two cores) started consuming a whole core whenever I started Firefox or Chrome, for whatever reason. When I shut down both then it went to normal. And again when I started any of them, CPU spikes.

My SheevaPlug just stopped responding to certain commands, df -h worked while free yielded an I/O error after a while. Not a common occurrence; I had to restart it and it went fine.

Does this bug solve both mysteries (happening at about the right time IIRC), or am I retconning the solution?

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The leap second bug

Posted Jul 4, 2012 21:20 UTC (Wed) by idupree (subscriber, #71169) [Link]

I doubt you're retconning. The morning before the leap second I warned my family "there's a leap second coming - our systems might do weird things!" Later that day my sibling's Chromium and Git Gui started eating the CPU, and later my own Firefox did (and a few other programs too). It rarely happens for either of us that multiple programs randomly eat the CPU!