Re: System.currentTimeMillis() on SMP systems

Rodrick Brown <[email protected]> Fri, 9 May 2008 13:32:21 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.java.advanced
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Carfield Yim <[email protected]>
wrote:

> What exactly is the problem?
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Rodrick Brown <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I'm stress testing my backend server and I wrote a small client
> application
> > that uses System.currentTimeMillis() on various operations the results
> dont
> > seem to be consistent with what I would expect my system is a 8 core
> Intel
> > x64 class machine running 64 Bit linux. I heard about issues with
> > System.currentTimeMillis() on SMP machines is this true? Is there a
> better
> > approach I should be taking?
> >
>
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The operations being timed over X number of iterations don't seem to co
relate with the System.currentTimeMillis() start/end calculations.

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