[LEAPSECS] FaceBooks nasty experience with Leap Seconds

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Fri Aug 9 03:18:09 EDT 2013


I can't speak directly about Facebook, but I do know that most vendors like to update things often, and many larger users like to update rarely because of the instability that introduces into a production (money making) environment.

Warner

On Aug 7, 2013, at 4:46 PM, Peter Vince wrote:


> Hello Poul-Henning,

>

> I was surprised by this message - I thought Linux had long-since

> been fixed. Was I wrong, or are Facebook using an old version?

>

> (I have a nasty feeling such a simple question could lead to a very

> complicated answer, so apologies in advance!)

>

> Peter Vince (London, England)

>

>

> On 7 August 2013 13:47, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

>>

>> http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/08/06/server-storm/

>>

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