[Flame] Linux in 2012

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http://tech2.in.com/news/web-services/leap-second-bug-in-server-takes-down-the-pirate-bay/321012

The popular torrent hosting site, The Pirate Bay went down late last night after a bug in the NTP daemon crashed the Debian Linux powered server. The NTP bug is to do with the leap second increment that is added at midnight. A bug in the kernel caused ThePirateBay and some other sites running similar software to crash. When we checked last, the site was still down and it’s likely to be up in the next few hours.
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ntpd crashed many Linux servers. No comment.

(One of my Dell servers crashed seven or more times with Gentoo (my favorite Linux). FreeBSD runs perfect on the same server for 6+ months.)
 
We had our Linux servers shutdown for that time window on our customer sites. Fortunately our Solaris servers were able to bear the burden.
 
We had java processes go nuts on various Linux servers, starting pretty much right at the leapsecond.

Everything else seemed fine....
 
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