dsm_om_connsvcd taking up a lot of CPU after date switch to 2012-07-01

[Chuck Anderson]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 05:42:56AM +0200, Anders Kvist wrote:
> http://lnxbx.dk/~akv/dsm_om_connsvcd.png
> <http://lnxbx.dk/%7Eakv/dsm_om_connsvcd.png> - a server that hardly
> doesn't do anything, but suddenly have high load due to
> dsm_om_connsvcd...
> 
> It affected all our machines running CentOS6 with Dell OMSA
> installed on two different sites...
> 
> Any ideas? Leap second?

Yes.  Quick fix is to reset the date:

date; date `date +"%m%d%H%M%C%y.%S"`; date

I didn't need to reboot, nor stop ntpd, nor restart OMSA or any other
processes that were affected by this (in my case chromium-browser).

See:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/30/122

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769972

https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2012-June/003988.html

http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2012-June/049712.html