Subject: [Re:][outages]Java apps around the globe are crashing... Sender: outages-bounces@outages.org Date: 06/30/12 10:20 PM . . . 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 verson, 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