[mythtv-users] MythBackend Suddenly swamping CPU on system

[R. G. Newbury]

On 07/01/2012 12:20 AM, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 01:50:04PM +1000, Chris Edwards (chris at chris-edwards.org) wrote:
>
>> This post has a little info:
>> http://blog.mozilla.org/it/2012/06/30/mysql-and-the-leap-second-high-cpu-and-the-fix/
>>
>> So it seems restart ntpd makes the problem go away. I can't verify
>> this as I've already rebooted
>
> I can: just restarting ntpd doesn't help, but the fix proposed in that
> link worked for me:
>
> /etc/init.d/ntpd stop; date -s "`date`"; /etc/init.d/ntpd start
>
> This fixed the cpu load both in my mythtv box as well as in
> another, non-mythtv machine running mysql.
>

And it would be systemctl restart chronyd.service on Fedora 17 (and 16 
iirc.)

Geoff