[LEAPSECS] Leapseconds, more evidence

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

>The original source may be this:

>

>	https://plus.google.com/117024231055768477646/posts/2pkWbDiEDQG


I have received several copies of the email Hetzner sent out to their
customers, so the above was probably just for one (big!) customer:


> During the night of 30.06.2012 to 01.07.2012 our internal 

> monitoring systems registered an increase in the level of

> IT power usage by approximately one megawatt.

> 

> The reason for this huge surge is the additional switched 

> leap second which can lead to permanent CPU load on Linux 

> servers.

> 

> According to heise.de, various Linux distributions are 

> affected by this. Further information can be found at:

> 

> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Leap-second-Linux-can-freeze-1629805.html

> 

> In order to reduce CPU load to a normal level again, a 

> restart of the whole system is necessary in many cases. 

> First, a soft reboot via the command line should be 

> attempted. Failing that, you have the option of performing 

> a hardware reset via the Robot administration interface. 

> For this, select menu item "Server" and the "Reset" tab

> for the respective server in the administration interface.

> 

> Please do not hesitate to contact us, should you have any 

> queries.

> 

> Kind regards,

> 

> Hetzner Online AG



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