Name: jl125535			Date: 06/10/2004


FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
java version "1.5.0-beta2"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0-beta2-b51)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0-beta2-b51, mixed mode, sharing)

ADDITIONAL OS VERSION INFORMATION :
Linux jupiter 2.6.5-1.358 #1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
running "java" makes an excessive number of system calls.  For example it calls gettimeofday 871 times, even when I'm only running "java -version". I have not looked at other system calls, but the strace generated 1285 lines.

This is actually an improvement over j2sdk1.4.2_04 which called gettimeofday 1431 times!



STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
 strace java -version

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
at most one call to gettimeofday at start up.
ACTUAL -
871 calls to gettimeofday

ERROR MESSAGES/STACK TRACES THAT OCCUR :
$ wc -l java_linux_strace.txt
1488 java_linux_strace.txt
$ sort -u java_linux_strace.txt | wc -l
1285
$ grep gettimeofday java_linux_strace.txt | wc -l
871
$


[...]
gettimeofday({1086337286, 552231}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1086337286, 552496}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1086337286, 552752}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1086337286, 575736}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1086337286, 576172}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1086337286, 576397}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1086337286, 576673}, NULL) = 0
[...]

REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.
(Incident Review ID: 276269) 
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