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Jason Brown commented on CASSANDRA-11547:
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Hmm, starting to think I should have titled this ticket referencing "clock
skew" rather than "clock drift". "drift" seems to indicate capture the
minuscule differences that arise over time, rather than the more generic
"skew", which would cover all clock differences, regardless of size. (It is the
larger differences, measured in minutes, for which this ticket was indicated to
catch.)
> Add background thread to check for clock drift
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-11547
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-11547
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Reporter: Jason Brown
> Assignee: Jason Brown
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: clocks, time
>
> The system clock has the potential to drift while a system is running. As a
> simple way to check if this occurs, we can run a background thread that wakes
> up every n seconds, reads the system clock, and checks to see if, indeed, n
> seconds have passed.
> * If the clock's current time is less than the last recorded time (captured n
> seconds in the past), we know the clock has jumped backward.
> * If n seconds have not elapsed, we know the system clock is running slow or
> has moved backward (by a value less than n)
> * If (n + a small offset) seconds have elapsed, we can assume we are within
> an acceptable window of clock movement. Reasons for including an offset are
> the clock checking thread might not have been scheduled on time, or garbage
> collection, and so on.
> * If the clock is greater than (n + a small offset) seconds, we can assume
> the clock jumped forward.
> In the unhappy cases, we can write a message to the log and increment some
> metric that the user's monitoring systems can trigger/alert on.
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