# Leapsecond and elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/leapsecond-and-elasticsearch/8276>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 1, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/leapsecond-and-elasticsearch/8276 "2012-07-01T15:10:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/leapsecond-and-elasticsearch/8276/1 "2012-07-01T15:10:20Z")

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Heya,

So, the #leapocalypse seems to be upon us. Its hitting all over the  
place, and the problem is mainly coming from Linux ntpd livelock and futex  
problems. (some places mentioned Java as the problem, but its really a more  
lower level problem).

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This seems to help people:

```

/etc/init.d/ntp stop; date; date `date +"%m%d%H%M%C%y.%S"`; date;  
/etc/init.d/ntp start

And once run, restart elasticsearch. If not, reboot might help.

Some references:

> <https://serverfault.com/questions/403732/anyone-else-experiencing-high-rates-of-linux-server-crashes-during-a-leap-second>

  
[http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4182642](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4182642)  
[http://blog.mozilla.org/it/2012/06/30/mysql-and-the-leap-second-high-cpu-and-the-fix/](http://blog.mozilla.org/it/2012/06/30/mysql-and-the-leap-second-high-cpu-and-the-fix/)  
[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show\_bug.cgi?id=769972](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769972)  
[http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4183493](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4183493)

(Note, even though its great fun to blame Java here and there (god knows I  
do it 🙂 ), its not Java fault this time...)

-shay.banon

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/leapsecond-and-elasticsearch/8276/2 "2017-07-06T03:21:53Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 3:21am UTC