Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:07:16 -0700 From: Bill Huey (Hui) <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org> To: Nick Johnson <freebsd@spatula.net> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thread.sleep implementation Message-ID: <20020808190716.GA2757@gnuppy.monkey.org> In-Reply-To: <20020808074233.T13773-100000@turing.morons.org> References: <20020808074233.T13773-100000@turing.morons.org>
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On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 07:48:01AM -0700, Nick Johnson wrote: > I've noticed that in threads which are trying to make locks or wait to > retry on some failure condition, the JVM tends to suddenly begin using > tons of CPU, despite the presense of a Thread.sleep() call inside the > loop. > > What seems to also happen is starvation of the other threads, almost as > though Thread.sleep were implemented as a busy loop (?). I'll try to come > up with a test case for this. I bring it up here in case someone closer > to the JVM's internals might know what I'm talking about... Under what threading model ? bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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