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Christopher Smith commented on CASSANDRA-6106:
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Ah, you are right about the paxos. I keep forgetting there is no DC-local LWT.

I can't see someone with multiple data centers avoiding the "race" by having 
everything be LWT. The performance cost (not to mention the vulnerability to 
partitioning) seem to go against the point of using Cassandra. It's useful 
tactically, but not as a strategy.
                
> QueryState.getTimestamp() & FBUtilities.timestampMicros() reads current 
> timestamp with System.currentTimeMillis() * 1000 instead of System.nanoTime() 
> / 1000
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-6106
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6106
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Core
>         Environment: DSE Cassandra 3.1, but also HEAD
>            Reporter: Christopher Smith
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: collision, conflict, timestamp
>         Attachments: microtimstamp.patch
>
>
> I noticed this blog post: http://aphyr.com/posts/294-call-me-maybe-cassandra 
> mentioned issues with millisecond rounding in timestamps and was able to 
> reproduce the issue. If I specify a timestamp in a mutating query, I get 
> microsecond precision, but if I don't, I get timestamps rounded to the 
> nearest millisecond, at least for my first query on a given connection, which 
> substantially increases the possibilities of collision.
> I believe I found the offending code, though I am by no means sure this is 
> comprehensive. I think we probably need a fairly comprehensive replacement of 
> all uses of System.currentTimeMillis() with System.nanoTime().

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