[CASSANDRA-13940] Fix stress seed multiplier

• Type: Bug
• Status: Review In Progress
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 5.x
• Component/s: Tool/stress
• Severity: Normal

Test and Documentation Plan

against 4.0

• Assignee: Daniel Cranford
• Reporter: Daniel Cranford

Authors

Daniel Cranford

Reviewers

Ben Slater, Stefan Miklosovic

• Created: 05/Oct/17 12:52
• Updated: 07/Mar/23 10:53

Description

CASSANDRA-12744 attempted to fix a problem with partition key generation, but is generally broken. E.G.

cassandra-stress -insert visits=fixed\(100\) revisit=uniform\(1..100\) ...

sends cassandra-stress into an infinite loop. Here's a better fix.

Issue Links

• is related to: CASSANDRA-12744 Randomness of stress distributions is not good