[outages] Java apps around the globe are crashing...

[Geoffrey Mina]

Looks like upgrading the JVM probably won't be the answer. Anyone know of a fix and/or workaround?

Geoff Mina
Founder/CTO
Connect First Inc.
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gmina at ConnectFirst.com

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On Jun 30, 2012, at 8:25 PM, "Darius Jahandarie" <djahandarie at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Wil Schultz <wschultz at bsdboy.com> wrote:
>> Leap second bug. *sigh*
> 
> However, it does not seem to be a Java bug -- so far, it looks like
> something is causing futex() to timeout, instead of telling the thread
> to sleep [1], causing issues on anything that uses it (e.g., java,
> chrome, mysql).
> 
> It's not clear exactly what variable (i.e., kernel versopm, distro)
> causes boxes to go haywire. It may just be a race condition which some
> people hit due to bad luck.
> 
> But it is certainly related to the leap second.
> 
> 
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/30/122
> 
> -- 
> Darius Jahandarie
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