Linux kernel to blame for ‘leap second’ outage
A number of high-profile outages that took place last weekend can be traced back to how the Linux OS kernel mishandled a leap second added to the official time, charges the CTO of DataStax, a company that manages the open source Cassandra database.
“Initial reporting often fingered Java or even Cassandra as the culprit … but the actual problem was a kind of livelock in the Linux system calls responsible for timers,” wrote DataStax CTO and Cassandra creator Jonathan Ellis, in a blog post.
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