JDK-6725789 : ScheduledExecutorService does not work as expected in jdk7/6/5
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: core-libs
  • Sub-Component: java.util.concurrent
  • Affected Version: 7
  • Priority: P2
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: windows_xp
  • CPU: x86
  • Submitted: 2008-07-15
  • Updated: 2010-12-11
  • Resolved: 2010-12-11
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5.0u16-revFixed 5.0u18Fixed 6u20-revFixed 7 b34Fixed
Related Reports
Relates :  
JDK-6639183 - Scheduling large negative delay hangs entire ScheduledExecutor
Description
ScheduledExecutorService does not work as we expect.

The test programs schedules the execution of MyTask().
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When Mytask() is scheduled  in scheduleWithFixedDelay() as follows,
 -initialDelay is 0 : Execute right now
 -delay is 1000[msec] : Execute every 1000[msec]
the MyTask() sometimes is not executed.
Initial execution of MyTask() is not executed and scheduled MyTask() is not executed also.

CONFIGURATION:
OS : WindowsXP(SP2,Japanese)
JRE/JDK : jdk7b30/jdk6u7/jdk5u16

Note:
 The reporter says, this occus in RHEL(x86) and submitter confirms this problem occurs in Solaris10.

FREQUENCY:
 The problem can be reproducible so often. 
The test program sometimes finishes correctly.

EXPECTED:
 The followings message will shows up.

ACTUAL:
 No message. The execution seems hang.
Comments
EVALUATION http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/tl/jdk/rev/f33c3846cecb
01-08-2008
EVALUATION There is actually a more subtle underlying issue with the data structure that hides a number of potential bugs. Martin Buchholz has prepared a complete fix for delivery in to OpenJDK.
28-07-2008
SUGGESTED FIX if (triggerTime < 0) triggerTime = Long.MAX_VALUE;
17-07-2008
EVALUATION As the submitter had determined the various "schedule" methods contain code of the form: long triggerTime = now() + delay; and if the delay is sufficiently large then overflow will occur. When overflow occurs a negative delay-time can be stored into the delay-queue and this causes the delay queue to operate incorrectly. If you place a correct entry in the queue and then add a negative entry, while the correct entry is still there, then the correct entry is pushed down and no task ever becomes scheduled to run - and we have the hang as reported. However, if the correct task is removed from the queue by a worker thread, prior to the negative task being submitted, then the task is correctly replaced in the queue and the test passes. It was curious to find that: java Test passes, while java -showversion Test always hangs.
17-07-2008
WORK AROUND Avoid using delays far in the future.
16-07-2008