YES! This happened to me as well. RUNNING THAT COMMAND FIXED THE PROBLEM!
THANK YOU SO MUCH On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Mina Naguib <mina.nag...@bloomdigital.com> wrote: > > Hi folks > > Our cassandra (and other java-based apps) started experiencing extremely high > CPU usage as of 8pm eastern time (midnight UTC). > > The issue appears to be related to specific versions of java + linux + ntpd > > There are many solutions floating around on IRC, twitter, stackexchange, LKML. > > The simplest one that worked for us is simply to run this command on each > affected machine: > > date; date `date +"%m%d%H%M%C%y.%S"`; date; > > CPU drop was instantaneous - there was no need to restart the server, ntpd, > or any of the affected JVMs. > > > -- David Daeschler