Re: System.currentTimeMillis() on SMP systems

Peter Booth <[email protected]> Sat, 10 May 2008 15:09:40 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.java.advanced
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Can you be specific?

On May 9, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Rodrick Brown wrote:

> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Carfield Yim =
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>> What exactly is the problem?
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>> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Rodrick Brown =
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>> wrote:
>>> I'm stress testing my backend server and I wrote a small client
>> application
>>> that uses System.currentTimeMillis() on various operations the =20
>>> 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 =20=

> co
> relate with the System.currentTimeMillis() start/end calculations.
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