It was a kernel race condition (and subsequent live lock) after ntpd notified the clock subsystem of the coming leap second (http://serverfault.com/questions/403732/anyone-else-experiencing-high-rates-of-linux-server-crashes-during-a-leap-second)
The joys of fine grained locking :)
Cheers,
Nick.
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Sent from my phone, thus the relative brevity :)
On Sun, 1 Jul 2012 21:11:25 +0200
Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
> So would "supporting" the leap second in Python have made any difference?
No. These look like system (kernel?) bugs.
Regards
Antoine.
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